Will the US and UK's support for Israel backfire?
There are growing signs of substantial public disaffection in these two nations which have been conspicuous in refusing to take Israel to task for its slaughter.
Putin’s interview and the West’s extraordinary outrage
The media’s job to interview geopolitical adversaries.
Trump’s impunity and the Republican Party meltdown
Trump is more a symptom rather than the cause of the current political crisis in the US.
Why did the US almost shut down?
I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?
Tucker Carlson and the murky state of US media
Tucker Carlson, the recently fired US cable television talk show host at Fox News, was quite a force to be reckoned with. Until, he was fired.
Trump’s arrest adds fuel to fire in hyperpolarised US
Republicans are locked in a Faustian embrace with Trump, and the arrest is likely to make that embrace tighter.
The deadly, murky history of the rules-based order
This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.
April 3, 2022
Ukraine invasion and the dystopian US political landscape
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rages on, one of the strangest spectacles is a bunch of video clips of Fox News Channel’s conservative
March 23, 2022
The path to cultural redemption
The Nazrul Festival 2022, a two-day cultural extravaganza that was open to the public, has recently concluded.
January 9, 2022
A day in infamy in US history
A year ago, on January 6, armed, violent supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol. Lawmakers hid in fear of their lives.
December 18, 2021
Towards a future full of promises and challenges
How time flies.
November 28, 2021
A green shoot of hope in a (still) arid, racist terrain
The USA’s battle against racism continues to be a Sisyphean struggle. No sooner do you bask in the comforting awareness of the enormous strides the nation has taken than you are yanked by the scruff of your neck to face some dreadful sign that this ugly affliction is well and alive.
November 16, 2021
The urgent need to battle the growing rise of hatred
My recent open letter to Hindu brothers and sisters published in this newspaper was accompanied by a photograph that is seared in my memory.
November 6, 2021
For communal violence, the burden of guilt falls on the majority too
My dearest Hindu sisters and brothers, I am overcome with grief, outrage and shame as I write to you.
October 2, 2021
Auf Wiedersehen, Chancellor Merkel!
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves a distinguished—if unavoidably mixed—legacy as she ends a long stint at the helm of Germany, the economic powerhouse of the European Union.
September 18, 2021
The great ‘tamasha’ of California recall election
It was a political circus almost as outsized as America’s largest state: California.
August 15, 2021
A pluralism that transcended the sectarian divide
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is rightly celebrated for leading the people of Bangladesh to independence after a prolonged, decades-long struggle that required acute political acumen, a remarkable capacity to win the hearts of his people, and most important of all, that rare sort of courage that had the power to stare squarely into the eyes of death.
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