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Category: South Asia

Violence, Anonymity & Justice

The sole identity of a victim of rape in the Indian society is akin to that of an Untouchable. This observation has been made by the Apex Court of the […]

The Priest With A Difference

Jabez Thomas Sunderland was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1842. He, along with his parents, left for the US a couple of years after his birth and did his the […]

Statue & Statute

The global community still remembers his fight against racism in South Africa. However, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – the political activist and the leader of the Indian Independence Movement against British […]

Script… Temple… Knowledge… Civilisation

Sharada – a village on the banks of the Neelum River – is situated in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK). The village houses Sharada Peeth, one of the ancient Hindu pilgrimage centres! Hindus […]

Railing Under The Sea

A unique instance of communication system! The train will commute the sea… just like a submarine. During the recent UAE-India Conclave, the top officials of the two countries have decided […]

Quakes & The Mountain Building Phase

The Indian seismologists have warned that an earthquake of magnitude 8.5 or more could rock the Himalayas and might trigger a disaster of a massive nature in South Asia. The […]

Civilised Disobedience

The death of John Allen Chau is a tragic one, no doubt. The 26-year-old American evangelist wanted to introduce the Sentinelese – an indigenous stone-age people and one of the […]

Reverse Swing & Seam Judgement

Leaders should always be ready to take U-turns in Politics. Hitler and Napoleon had to face defeat because they seemingly did not prepare themselves for this. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran […]

On His Day…

When the Indians were remembering their first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his birthday on November 14, 2014, current Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Australia. He spent the […]