Systems of revenge and vendetta are part of the native cultures among the tribes of Afghanistan, clans of Somalia, Sicily, Arab lands, Latin America...

A week ago, the Houthi rebels, backed by Iran, had a free run of Yemen. In Tikrit, Iraq, the Shia militia, led by Iranian officers; helped by the...

Boxing Day reminded me of 26 December, 2004, the day the tsunami trampled Aceh in Indonesia, Galle and Trincomalee in Sri Lanka and devastated the...

Eminent TV anchor, Rajdeep Sardesai, has in a recent article drawn attention to the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has restored balance to his...

The three were part of Egypt’s most powerful news bureau during the brief spell of President Mohammad Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood.??The US State...

The picturesque Sultanate of Oman was set to make history. It was to be the venue where the West would conclude its nuclear deal with Iran. But...

The two successes of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) of Hyderabad in assembly elections in Maharashtra may not affect government formation in...

Even the skeptics now agree that India shall be a power in the Asian century. To insure this rise to the top, India must maximize all its assets. One...

It was a toss up between Brazil’s President Lula da Silva and Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. In fact, compared to Lula’s two terms as...

Recently, The Independent in London published an article giving a clue to ordinary Saudi reaction to IS. Patrick Cockburn, the writer, has cited a...

I did not understand a word of what our prime minister said at the United Nations General Assembly. Well, except for words like ‘taaqatwar’, ‘rozgar’...

There is an expression in Hindi, ‘Soney pey suhaga’, suhaga being the powder which makes gold shine. In a volatile social situation, where communal...