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Category: South Asia

Preying On Poor & Illiterates

Indian media have reported that men are paying off debts by auctioning teenage and young girls of their families in the western Indian province of Rajasthan. Reports suggest that the […]

A ‘Tindal’ Effect…

The US has decided to deploy fighter jets, capable of carrying nuclear bombs, in Australia, a country belonging to the QUAD (or the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a strategic security dialogue […]

The ‘Self’ & The ‘Profile’

The arrival of satellite channels at our drawing rooms in the 1990s, and the increasing usage of smartphones and growing popularity of Social Media in the early 21st Century have […]

A ‘Historic’ Development And…

Rishi Sunak (b. May 12, 1980) recently became the third British Prime Minister in three months. It is, of course, a historical development. Apart from that, Sunak has become the […]

A ‘Different’ Foreign Investment

In what may be seen as a huge boost for the Indian defence sector, Swedish firm Saab has decided to manufacture Carl-Gustaf M4 weapon system in the South Asian nation. […]

Experiencing Bloodbath, And…

A suicide blast rocked the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021… 11 days after the Taliban had taken control of Afghanistan for the second time. The […]

Narrated By A Dead Man

One day, Maali Almeida, a war photographer and a gambler, woke up in the morning to find himself dead. As his dismembered body was sinking in the serene Beira lake, […]

A ‘Serious’ Level Of Hunger

As per the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, the world is supposed to be hunger-free, by 2030. To measure how far the world has made progress towards that goal, two […]