
Tariq Karim
THE ICONOCLAST FILES
Tariq Karim, a former career diplomat and academic, is currently Visiting Fellow at BRAC University.
THE ICONOCLAST FILES
Tariq Karim, a former career diplomat and academic, is currently Visiting Fellow at BRAC University.
One cannot conceive of India emerging as an independent, modern nation-state without the leadership of Gandhi,
When political events in the domestic sphere of a state transcend the internal space of that state, through a process of empathetic osmosis, and impacts negatively upon the domestic political and governance harmony of one or more neighbouring states around or adjacent to it,
At the very core of our entire ecosystem is the location and availability of fresh water on which lives and human livelihood are fundamentally dependent.
India’s biggest challenge when dealing with its immediate neighbours is, first and foremost, the sense of its sheer size that dwarfs the combined size of all the others.
At the very core of our entire ecosystem is the location and availability of fresh water on which sustaining lives and human livelihood are fundamentally dependent.
The historical-civilisational Indian sub-continent, now known as “South Asia”, was for millennia the most integrated region in the world.
Our attitude to garbage disposal and plastic waste is flagrantly callous. What is particularly eye-soring is the mass of plastic waste of all types, ubiquitously filling up unending stretches of areas beside roads, railway lines, all conceivable nooks and crannies between buildings/shanties and, most egregious of all, as flotsam floating listlessly on all types of water bodies that have still managed to escape attention of insatiable land-developers.
These days, I assail myself with questions triggered by the everyday acts of thoughtlessness that I witness committed by the multitude around me everywhere, young and old, male and female.
Practically all the institutions of our state are institutions that we have inherited from our about-200-years of British colonial rule. Pax Britannica was intentionally designed to be of everlasting nature. In imperial Britain's imagination, the sun would never set on the British Empire.
In Shakespeare's great tragedy King Lear, a powerful man comes to a tragic end because he surrounds himself with flatterers and banishes the friends “who will not varnish the truth to please him.”