John Nash died in a car accident
The Princeton University scholar and Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, who was 86, and his wife Alicia died in a car accident on Saturday. According to the New Jersey State Police, they were travelling in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike and were spewed out from the vehicle. The film ‘ A Beautiful Mind’, […]
#ModiInsultsIndia; an outrage on social media
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement during his visit to three nations sparked an angry reaction from opposition parties on Tuesday besides setting off a storm of protest on social media. Addressing the non-resident Indians (NRIs) in Shanghai, the Prime Minister said: “Earlier, you felt ashamed of being born Indian,” he said. “Now you feel […]
Egypt’s injustice system
Egypt’s justice system is almost completely devoid of justice. Perhaps those of us who have denounced Egyptian exceptionalism as a farce spoke too quickly. Egypt may be, after all, the only nation in the world with a justice system that convicts dead people for committing crimes from the grave and prisoners for committing street offenses from […]
Death sentence for freedom in Egypt
The regime seeks to take not only the lives of these defendants, but also the freedom to dissent of all its citizens. Like something out of a campy 1940s horror film, the dead are rising in Egypt and they’re terrorising the population. In the latest appalling decision by the Egyptian judiciary, Mohamed Morsi was convicted […]
Leviathan and Winter Sleep: What Do We Believe
A believer needs to have patience as well as mirth out of facing a barrage of questions. So the one who helps a believer is often a non-believer. Only in the context of scepticism can a true belief grow. Linguist Toshihiko Izutsu says that belief is progression, not a state in which people find themselves […]
Osama Hunt: Obama Version Countered by Hersh Expose
Pulitzer-prize winning author and investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has of late caused uproar with his take on the Osama killing in the London Review of Books, questioning the US claims of the incident as a protracted military feat of the state and, thereby, ruffling the feathers of the American military intelligence establishment as well as […]
Adonis: Words that Met Stars
A December dusk with cool breeze wafting all along. The 16th Doha International Book Fair was all set to begin. The pivot of Cultural programmes, a key event in the fair, is the chief guest Adonis, the most remarkable Arab poet of this era. A Khayma (tent) has been specially erected on the sidelines of […]
Lynching Woman: Four Afghan Men Sentenced to death
Four Afghan men were awarded death sentence in Kabul on Monday over a mob attack in which a woman was beaten to death after being falsely accused of burnung the holy Quran, an incident which the commentators say has caused nationwide protests and uproar. Although witnesses claimed that she did not burn the Quran, the […]
French Parliament Passes Draconian surveillance Law
Following the killings of 17 people at the Charlie Hedbo, satirical magazine in France, the French Parliament has accelerated surveillance powers, through which intelligence agencies could tap phones and emails sans the permission from a judge. With the new bill, the authorities are allowed to spy on the digital and mobile phone communications of anyone […]
Up to 7 000 migrants held in Libya
Tripoli (AFP) – Thousands of illegal migrants who have tried to reach Europe from conflict-plagued Libya are being held in detention centres in the North African country, an official said on Monday. Most are Africans intercepted off Libyan shores or inside the country as they prepared to board boats for Europe, Mohammed Abdelsalam al-Kuwiri said. He […]
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