Male, Molested & Made To Take His Own Life…
On June 14, 2024, the Police registered a case under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against four people (all men) in Gorakhpur District of the northern Indian […]
On A Ghost Island With A Dark History
Gunkanjima or Hashima – a tiny abandoned island off Nagasaki, lying about 15km from the centre of the city – became popular for coal mining during the industrialisation of Japan […]
Ex-UNSC Chief: UK Should ‘Step Aside’ For India
Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UN between 1984 and 1989, and again between 1998 and 2004, and also […]
Man’s Emergence From Self-Imposed ‘Nonage’
Immanuel Kant (April 22, 1724 – February 12, 1804), the famous German Philosopher, penned his essay, titled Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?, which was published in the Berlin […]
Post-Independence India As A State…
On August 15, 1947, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964), the first Prime Minister of India, called Independence (of the South Asian country from the colonial […]
The Dynamics Of Super- & Small-States
The borders defining today’s nations may seem permanent, but over a broader historical lens, they are fluid and ever-changing. In the last two centuries alone, almost no international boundary has […]
US Pushing For Fresh Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
Hamas recently claimed that the US was constantly pressuring the Palestinian Resistance Movement to accept an Israeli truce proposal. Osama Hamdan, the representative of Hamas in Lebanon, said that the […]
Human Resource Management In Colonial India
In her latest publication ‘Human Resource Management in the Days of John Company: 1790-1850‘, Dr Sharmistha De has discussed how the British East India Company became an administrative entity in […]
On Irish Slavery In America…
Once upon a time, Britain had reportedly used the Irish people, and not the Africans, as slaves and sent them to the US! That was possibly why thousands of Irish […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 