Sesame Street is a children’s educational programme and has served generations. One of the most famous Muppets on this long running show is the Cookie Monster who is best known for its voracious appetite and for eating almost anything, including inedible objects! After finishing off everything, it still wants more. Thus, if you give a…
“After Partition of 1947, demolition of Babri Masjid by vandals, with the connivance of some people, was the greatest tragedy of India. The Ayodhya verdict says it was illegal, but in the same breath sanctifies it. Well done, My Lords!” This is not a view from the streets but that of Markandey Katju, a former…
PM Modi, you may pat yourself on the back and think that you have outsmarted the world! But remember that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip especially in a complex, globalized, interdependent world with 24/7 visibility of all that you have done and said. The future may have surprises for…
“Article 370, a temporary transitional provision, is the biggest injustice with the people of Jammu and Kashmir, while the Article 35A is a constitutional blunder which was included through back door without the consent of parliament and the president. we wish the early abrogation of both these constitutional provisions”, said the BJP Jammu & Kashmir…
The nightmare scenario for the Lab our party has come true! The general election of the 12th of December has handed Boris Johnson’s Conservative party a sizeable majority! Seat after seat in Labor’s traditional heartlands of the north and midlands fell to the Tories. In the biggest moment of the night, the Conservative candidate overhauled…
Today virtually no one can stop Hussain Haqqani etal and BLA like organisations from making so called anti Pakistan statements. Even though the press and electronic media may not carry these, social media is a wide open arena for anyone to write and say anything. This is also exasperated by the three democratisations of globalisation…
Are we at the cusp of all out war? Has Trump nicely and truly brought us to the precipice of global destruction? How did we come to this and what should we do? In the annals of Middle East politics, July 2015 was a watershed moment. This is when Iran and a six nation negotiating…
While 2019 has been a year of uncertainty for a variety of reasons, none is more prominent than the saga of BREXIT. It has been over two years since BREXIT was confirmed via a national referendum in the UK. This was done on the behest of David Cameron, then British Prime Minister, who was trying…
Imagine a 10-year-old girl walking in the relative calm of her surroundings. Then imagine she is abducted by known or unknown assailants and taken to a dark and cold place. Imagine she is all alone, scared, helpless and powerless against these ruffians. Imagine her little mind can’t fathom what is about to happen to her….
Lists are nothing new. For years, they have been used to enumerate one thing or the other. All esteemed publications use them. Fortune, Time, Forbes you name it. Recently, there have been two lists that are the talk of the town. The FATF list and the Entity list! Being on the FATF grey list is…
