Touching The Tail Of CCCP Tales
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret over the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s on a number of occasions in the past. He described the break-up of the […]
A Death & The World Equation
Jamal Khashoggi was reluctant to call himself an ‘opposition‘. He only wanted Saudi Arabia to implement the reform programmes in a proper manner and to get rid of the ‘dictatorial […]
Opium, Nanking, Doklam &…
India and Japan plan to allow their armed forces to use each other’s military bases in near future. According to diplomatic sources, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese […]
In The Crèche Of ‘Cracy’ Again!
Once, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951) – the Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily on logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language – said: […]
Idiocracy!
Recently, 1,400 words got entry in one of the most authentic English dictionaries and one of them is ‘Idiocracy’. The word itself explains the meaning…. a system run by the […]
Manto: The Man To Be Reckoned
Lahore, January 1948….. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was looking at a footwear shop, as he tried to assess the damage. The shop was badly damaged during the communal violence that […]
No To Theravada, On To Taus
It was a day of double delight for the Yazidis. When the Norwegian Nobel Committee was announcing names of 2018 Peace Prize winners on October 5, the Yazidi community was […]
On An Ancient Trade…
It’s official! Drugs used to exist in ancient times. In the past, we traced opium and other drugs in artists’ works, ancient manuscripts, literatures and mythology. However, there was no […]
The Conflict Is Econo-Political
A coincidence? Just before William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on October 8, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that the impact of global warming […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 