Yemen: Conflict Persists Even After Saudi Walks Away
Despite Saudi Arabia’s decision to end the month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels and to back a political solution to bring peace to Yemen, Militiamen in Southern Yemen said on Tuesday that they would not withdraw from fighting rebels until they move them away from the region. The residents told Reuters that […]
Yemen Crisis: Iran bashing and Burqa Sneak-away
The United States has mounted a critique of Iranian military intervention in Yemen, alleging that Iranian vessels have carried weapons to Houthi rebels in the country. The Iranian convoy is reported to have comprised of nine ships and two patrol boats. While the US has made it clear that it would not take part directly […]
When Art Explores the World’s Mysteries
MUHAMMED NOUSHAD reviews the recently concluded Kochi-Muziris Biennale. Art opens a door: to the infinities of universe, to the obscurities of human innerness, to the possibilities of another world. Sometimes a spiritual ascension. An unexpected prophetic rescue from the imminent descent into the cave of evilness. Existing or nonexistent. Realistic or surrealistic. Standing before certain […]
Philippines: Consternation over US\China War Games
The Philippines has condemned what they would term Chinese aggressiveness with the aid of the US in disputed regional waters. As part of their campaign against Chinese encroachment, the Philippine military chief General Gregorio Catapang has revealed the satellite photos of recent Chinese construction over seven reefs and shoals in the Spratly archipelago of the […]
Unrest in Yemen: Beyond Sunni-Shia Cliches
‘Sectarian’ is the trait adjective in the media coverage on the contemporary conflicts in the North African/West Asian regions. However, by ‘sectarian’ they rarely mean the much-too familiar racial or communal sectarianism, but rather than religious sectarianism partitioned between the Sunnis and Shias. Why the word sectarianism acquires such an instant translation should be discussed […]
Stilled, the Drumbeat : Gunter Grass (1927-2015)
On Monday, Gunter Grass, one of the rarest rebels in the literary scene, bid us goodbye. Noted for candour in making judgments on issues, sharpness in his arguments, unwavering passion for life, lucidity in prose, the Nobel Laureate died in the northern German city of Lübeck, his home for decades. He was 87 and was […]
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 […]
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