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Category: Civil War

The Caliph, With Many Lives…

US President Donald Trump announced on October 27 that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the violent Jihadist group Islamic State (IS), had died during an overnight raid led by the US forces in Syria, along with the news of his likely successor with nom de guerre Abu Hassan al-Muhajir getting killed by the American airstrike, while reportedly getting smuggled across Northern Syria. The question now arises naturally: Will these deaths make the world a safer place?

The Not-So-Noble Action…

Can a not-so-good man create Art that is Grand? Perhaps, the answer is ‘Yes’… at least, the Nobel Committee believes so! The Royal Swedish Academy has recently honoured Peter Handke, […]

A Startling Revelation!

‘What did I do to you?‘ – those were precisely the last words of former Libyan leader Muammar Mohammed Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (June 7, 1942 – October 20, 2011), as […]

She Is Still Alive!

Dead bodies are seen lying on both sides of the road… some hearses have been roaming on the streets since morning, but it becomes difficult for them to clear the […]

The Sequel…

A somewhat unprecedented situation has arisen in the US recently over the publication of a book. A publisher planned to inaugurate noted Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s latest novel ‘The Testaments’ […]

Art Taking Refuge To Boxes

Quite a few box-shaped rooms… or rooms inside boxes… this may remind us of the song ‘Little Boxes’… but, these boxes are not like them! Even, the shapes of all […]