Nehru Govt Spied on Netaji Bose Family
With a big blow to the Congress Party, two declassified Intelligence Bureau Files have reportedly revealed that Jawaharlal Nehru government had spied on the relatives of Subhas Chandra Bose for nearly two decades. According to the report, the IB spied on the two Bose family homes in Calcutta and reported to Nehru. A Media report […]
Hope and Despair Ahead of Americas Summit
The US Secretary of State John Kerry has recently met Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on the eve of the 7th summit of the Americas, which is expected to bring together representative of 35 countries of the region and will be inaugurated on April 10 in the Panamanian capital. The Us government has said that […]
Political Imaginations of Muhammad Iqbal
Muhammad Iqbal (d.1938) was one of the significant Muslim intellectuals in the colonial India. He was an orator, writer, poet, campaigner and philosopher. The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India, a new study on the poet-philosopher by Iqbal Singh Sevea analyses the political dimension of the Iqbal’s philosophy. Sevea develops […]
Hisham Matar: The Politics of Oedipal Fears
I chanced upon Hisham Matar as an implied reader of Borges. An implied reader, as Wolfgang Iser defines, is the real reader that a literary work requires, whom the author expects and who meets the expectations of the work. When Hisham reads Borges’ ‘short story’ Shakespeare’s Memory for the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, I imagine […]
Foeticide: Indo American Woman’s Sentence Raises Eyebrows
Purvi Patel, a 33 year old Indian-American woman, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the US for female foeticide and child maltreatment. The police said to the media that she had gone to the hospital suffering from heavy vaginal bleeding. Though she denied being a pregnant, she admitted that she had […]
Streets of Istanbul
Afsal Laila Abdulla,young photographer from Nadapuram, Kerala, loves travel and conversations. He has passion for street photography, inspired from Raghu Rai and Daniel Berehulak. For Afsal, Photography is about capturing a moment from the flow of life. Thus, most his pictures foray into frozen movements. He is working as an HR Officer at a Western […]
Yemen Unrest: Saudi, Allies on Offensive Mode
In a strong, offensive move to militarily back the US-backed Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi , Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Gulf region have come out to the fore deploying troops and warplanes in Yemen to counter Iran allied forces who have beleaguered the southern city of Aden where the Yemani president had […]
Lee Kuan Yew: Legacies in Black and White
Lee Kuan Yew, the first prime minister of Singapore, died on Monday at Sinagapore General Hospital where he had been admitted in February due to pneumonia. A lawyer educated from Britain, Lee is believed to be a charismatic leader who led the nation into one of the world’s wealthiest nations and a global trade and […]
US Iran Nuke Talks Despite Israeli Miff
In an attempt to interdict Iran from becoming a nuclear power, John Kerry is making a desperate attempt to sit with the Iranian authorities to settle the issue diplomatically. So far, he has succeeded in reaching an agreement with the Iran that limits the latter’s nuclear production up to 20 years, while the US would […]
Ukraine: A Crucible of Imperial Muzzle Flexing
Addressing a rally held in Russia on March 18, President Vladimir Putin made it clear that Ukraine belonged to Russia. He was delivering a speech in the first anniversary of Russia’s takeover of Crimea from Ukraine. He said that Crimea is the source of Russia’s “historical origins”, its “spirituality and statehood”. He had said one […]
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