Saudi attitudes towards the plight of thousands of illegal Rohingya in the kingdom fleeing persecution in Myanmar and squalid Bangladeshi refugee camps help explain Saudi support for China’s brutal clampdown on Turkic Muslims in its troubled, north-western province of Xinjiang. For more than half a year, Saudi Arabia has been deporting large numbers of Rohin...
The attempts to remove the church from politics into a hobby corner had failed, but the most important organisation in human history still didn’t regain the place it had before the Jews and liberals joined the forces against Christendom. The defeat of UkroNazis is the first result of the developments. The Russian President Vladimir Putin is a churchgoer, a ...
Amit Shah, a close confidant of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the architect of the National Democratic Alliance’s spectacular victory in the general elections has taken over the mantle of Home Minister. At the outset, he has exhibited his priority for Jammu and Kashmir in no uncertain terms. It was one of the first states that he visited after becoming Ho...
Christianization of non-Christian deities and sites is a process of conversion of ‘pagan’ sites and structures from early Christian times, as well as an important part of the strategy of Christian reinterpretation during the christianisation of pagan peoples. Christianity’s sacred sites were built as part of a ruthless campaign against paganism and have abso...
Certain that Western and liberal democratic leaders would limit themselves to verbal denials, Russian president Vladimir Putin knew he was kicking into an open goal when he declared on the eve of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Osaka that liberalism had “outlived its purpose.” He may even have anticipated that US president Donald J. Trump would go further an...
A recent interview in which Baloch National Movement chairman Khalil Baloch legitimized recent militant attacks on Iranian, Chinese and Pakistani targets is remarkable less for what he said and more for the fact that his remarks were published by a Saudi newspaper. Speaking to Riyadh Daily, the English language sister of one of Saudi Arabia’s foremost newspa...
India is celebrating, in this month of July, the 20th anniversary of the Kargil War, an epic war fought at heights of over 16000 feet and temperatures as low as minus 15 degree Celsius. The ignominious designs of a belligerent neighbour to violate the nation’s territorial integrity were thwarted by a military riposte that has no parallel in the annals...
Faced with the near unanimous verdict of the International Court of Justice (15:1) on the imprisonment of India’s former naval officer, Islamabad buckled on July 19, 2019 and informed Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav of his rights under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 1963, and promised consular access. It follows that Pakistan has...
A video, “Operation Woodrose, June 1984-September 1984”, has been released recently under very suspicious circumstances. It makes highly inflammatory allegations that the Indian Army, post Operation Blue Star in June 1984, carried out another operation called Woodrose, whereby it rounded up as many as one lakh innocent Sikh boys, tortured them in custody and...
World is watching with curiosity as Prime Minister Modi pledged to make India a $5 trillion economy by the fiscal year 2024-25. It is always good to have a goal and do the necessary to achieve it. At present, the global headwinds are challenging. The world economy remained subdued in 2018 with growth rate falling to 3.6 per cent from 3.8 per cent in 2017. It...
A United Arab Emirates decision to withdraw the bulk of its forces from Yemen shines a spotlight on hard realities underlying Middle Eastern geopolitics. The pullback suggests that the UAE is preparing for the possibility of a US military confrontation with Iran in which the UAE and Saudi Arabia could emerge as prime battlegrounds. It also reflects long-stan...
Following the defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo (1815), Europe enjoyed relative peace until the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. The war changed the map Europe. It led to German unification under Bismarck, and the German Empire replaced France and Austria as the major power in Europe. So, it seemed like Europe had reached a period of stable peace foll...
Some books create controversy through their contents, others through promotion publicity. But few books create polemics at their very launch event. Eminent jurist A.G. Noorani’s recent work, The RSS: A Menace to India, falls in this category. The gentleman who released the book spoke much about its aims and contents. Former Indian Vice President Hamid...
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They say every dog has his day, and hers too. A couple of weeks back it seemed to be the season for doctors. They were in the limelight for their stand-off with the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, on the issue of their safety and security following a murderous attack on on-duty junior doctors in the NRS hospital in Kolkata.
A lot has been wr...
In Rottenseed! Cottonseed, Alzheimer’s and Your Brain, nutritionist Bruce Semon traces the rise of Alzheimer’s to a toxin in cottonseed, that goes to the brain and randomly ties up important structures there. Cottonseed, a byproduct of cotton farming, contains poisons but is routinely fed to farm animals, poultry and fish, from where it enters their flesh...
While European powers – the UK, Germany and France – are officially trying to ‘salvage’ the Iran nuke deal, the fact of the matter is that they have already sold out the deal to the US. And while European officials continue to visit Tehran, they are not doing this to convince Iran of staying in the deal; their primary purpose has been to convince Iran of the...
It has recently been reported that Donald Trump kick-started his 2020 campaign with a rally at Amway Center in Orlando in mid-June. Over the course of his speech, the sitting US president would preach against the “unholy alliance” of lobbyists and special interests and warned that nefarious entities in “Washington back rooms” want to take him down. According...
The second BRF-2019 Summit in Beijing became a landmark event that marked achievements of this infrastructure project, which, in 2016, changed its former name One Belt, One Road (OBOR) to Belt Road Initiative (BRI). The word ‘Belt’ refers to land routes, while ‘Road’ to maritime routes, the words “one, one” were removed from the name since numerous different...
It is good to have harmonious relations with neighbours. Though the initiative has to come from one side, there should be a sense of reciprocity from the other side. Overall it is the will to have good neighbourly relations that matters for both sides. Gestures and reciprocity can build up the process. In daily life, you can opt to change your place and go a...
Sooner or later the US “maximum pressure” on Iran would inevitably be met by “maximum counter-pressure”. Sparks are ominously bound to fly. For the past few days, intelligence circles across Eurasia had been prodding Tehran to consider a quite straightforward scenario. There would be no need to shut down the Strait of Hormuz if Quds Force commander, General...
“You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else’s babies”. This controversial statement was made in March 2017 by US Congressman, Rep. Steve King, an ardent champion against mass Muslim immigration into Europe, which has altered the continent’s demography and culture. A prominent Iowa Republican, his original tweet was in the context of support...
Even more than Syria, Iran is now at the heart of the confrontation between East and West. The astounded public is witnessing Washington’s daily about-turns in what seems – mistakenly – to be an escalation towards war between the two countries. But this is not what it is about. Fortunately, the two Great Powers have demonstrated for the last 75 years that th...
By any rational measure, the performance of the Congress party in the recent elections was dismal. This was not denied even by its matriarch Sonia Gandhi. What she did deny was the blame for the debacle: from the party organization to wrong candidates, everything and everyone, except herself and her family. (Who selected the candidates and set up the party o...