A Portrait of Aurangzeb More Complex than Hindutva’s Political Project Will Admit
In ‘Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth’, Audrey Truschke sifts popular imagination on the ruler’s personal and political life from historical realities.
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Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Play Games with Cyberwarfare as Its Power Declines
Cybersecurity threats are emerging as one of the most serious challenges of the 21st century. The U.S. and its NATO allies have turned down every attempt within the UN framework for banning cyberweapons.
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Haiti: ‘A Day in the Life’ Fighting Dictatorship and Neocolonialism
Danny Shaw, a City University of New York (CUNY) academic, slept, ate and marched with militants from the Fort National neighbourhood’s popular organisation Mouvement de Liberté d’Égalité des Haitiens pour la Fraternité in late February and early March.
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Why Ukraine’s Borders are Back at the Center of Geopolitics
Dialogue seems to have been downgraded between the Western alliance and Russia, with a green light to Ukraine to make provocative statements and actions. Unless cool heads prevail, it could lead to catastrophic war.
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The China-Iran Pact Is a Game Changer
The historic China-Iran agreement signed on March 27 in Tehran during the visit of China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is going to affect geopolitics hugely. The West Asian region is all about geopolitics — starting from oil and jihad to petrodollars.
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United States: For a Fighting Approach, Not Factionalism — An Interview with Kshama Sawant
The most prominent independent elected socialist in the U.S., Kshama Sawant, recently announced, that she and other members Socialist Alternative would be joining the Democratic Socialists of America. This is the important backdrop to this interview.
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New Global Alliance Defends UN Charter in Clear Rebuke of U.S. Imperialism
A new alliance called the ‘Groups of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations’ has formed in a clear act of resistance to the unilateral and aggressive policies of the United States and its junior partners.
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Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s Comment Linking Rape to How Women Dress
Pakistan rights campaigners have taken exception to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks on the causes of sexual violence and rape, terming them factually incorrect, insensitive and dangerous.
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Nawal El Saadawi’s Intellectual Life Reflected Eight Decades of Arab Society and Culture
The Egyptian feminist writer and activist (who was also a physician and psychiatrist) died on March 21 at the age of 89.
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Centenaries of Nazrul’s Bidrohi and Eliot’s The Waste Land: Colonized “I” versus Impersonal Autonomy
Eliot`s avant-garde leitmotif and “impersonality” theory structured the Waste Land; Nazrul`s Bidrohi is evidently more effusive and boisterous, suffused with the overabundant “I” that sustains the emotive poignance and rebellious self-assertion of the poem.
