Attacks in Sri Lanka and elsewhere suggest that the al-Qaida/ISIS phenomenon is still very much with us, despite military interventions by the West. Is it finally time for a new approach?
TV anchor Ravish Kumar, a kill-joy and not a theatre-lover, dislikes the very sight of a Nero fiddling and has run a one-man campaign against the infantilization of India.
Law, police and ideology are all targeting those claiming social, economic and political rights in India. But groups that have big memberships and stay close to their communities are getting results.
Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations
nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus founders, escalating
military action between India and Pakistan suggests urgency for global denuclearization.
The Science
Congress and Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), held in India every January, are
the largest events of their kind in the world. This year a curious kind of osmosis took
place.
It was not always like this. Hinduism neutralised
competing elements by absorbing them. This faith tradition was strong enough to
let internal theological differences and dissent be aired.
