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Category: South Asia

On Chemical Dependency…

An Organised Initiative had been made to get rid of drug addiction by the mid-20th Century… after serving jail terms, some drug addicts had set up the first self-help group in California, […]

The Valley Of Fear & Pain!

Reality, at times, is much more dreaded than Imagination… the present situation in Kashmir does speak of that! People of Kashmir have been staging protests against Repression (by the State) […]

Gathering Clouds Over West Asia…

It is difficult to predict what Tehran and Washington have in their respective minds! The Global Community is worried because the two Nuclear Powers are trading barbs… the only fear […]

Act(ion) By An Immigrant…

It is not far from the White House… Sakina Halal Grill is just like other top restaurants in the area… however, there is a difference between Sakina and other restaurants! Apart from […]

Theory Of Choice & Modern India…

Dr Partha Chatterjee – the India-born Political Scientist, Historian, Anthropologist, and a Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University – recently visited his […]

Return Of The…

Narendra Damodardas Modi has become the Prime Minister of India, once again! The outcome of the 17th Parliamentary Elections, that was held recently, is – to some extent – similar […]

Tragedy Looms Large Over Pakistan

More than 500 people have reportedly been diagnosed HIV positive in the southern Pakistani Province of Sindh in the past few days… and, most of the afflicted ones are children! […]

A Point Of Observation…

India had declined to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), arguing that the “Treaty is discriminatory in nature in its present format as it is advantageous to the Nuclear Weapon […]

Narcissism, Illeism & Politics

India – the largest democracy in the world – has recently held its 17th Parliamentary Elections, in seven phases. In the last 45 days, various political leaders addressed a number of […]