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In modern Persian culture, Gordafarid is a feminist icon and a symbol of Iranian resistance and ingenuity.
This is a war in which Iran’s objectives are nothing if not reasoned and secular.
If Iran can indeed survive the conventional assault from Israel and the US, it would radically alter the global architecture of
A dead Khamenei appears to have become more powerful in death than in life.
Trump and Witkoff should be able to understand Iran by simply reading about the life of American peace activist Rachel Corrie.
Rahul Gandhi cited some troubling passages from an as yet unpublished book showing Modi as a shirker when it came to China.
Perhaps Iran can still be wrecked as Donald Trump has threatened to do, but it’s difficult to see how.
Why does the prime minister of India get tongue-tied facing Donald Trump?
The very least the fractured parties can do is to stop carping at each other publicly.
This is the time for the left to be initiating and, where possible, spearheading mass movements against the rightward slide.
What role is Brics playing to worry Trump, so much so that two key Brics members, Iran and Venezuela, are in America’s constant crosshairs?
Practised cynicism was in evidence on Christmas Day at the highest level of government in India.
Had Ahmed al-Ahmed not stuck his neck out in time, Netanyahu would be digging his fangs into the carotid artery of Anthony Albanese.
National songs or anthems are often imposed from above, in which case they tend to exclude the diversity of the masses they purport to represent.
Rahul Gandhi is not unaware of the risks of calling out Modi on issues of high corruption, electoral fraud and divisive politics.
Modi in his own view thus became India’s answer to Lorenzo de Medici, Michelangelo and Copernicus rolled into one.
Syal’s tragedy prodded a gentle side of the human spirit when deeply felt tributes started coming from across the border.
India’s opposition parties might want to figure out their priorities at the outset.
For Mamdani’s politics, the 1957 Kerala experiment seems relevant — a communist government in a bourgeois state.
Which player does not have a prayer on their lips when they brace for a tense contest?
Bihar is the rare north Indian state where the Hindu right is struggling to take power on its own.
Many would be glued to their sets like their Indian counterparts on Sunday mornings for the hour the legend.
Much has been said about women journalists not being invited to the Afghan press conference by the Taliban foreign minister.
Was the Fahd plan a sleight of hand, an illusion, or the bus the Arabs missed?
Justice Chandrachud’s decision bequeathed 2.77 acres of land, which had been contested for decades, to the infant deity Ram.
It can’t be blamed on terrorism that Modi’s India struggles to find stable relations with other neighbours too — of varied
The short-lived street violence in Nepal doesn’t quite seem to fit the description of any upheaval.
Those accusing Trump of betraying India haven’t learnt from history.
India has 800m on food dole, signalling the contradiction between its right-wing government shored up by big money
Handy lessons can be gleaned from Corrie’s murder, both by Priyanka Gandhi and every foreign supporter of the Palestinian struggle
Why is it so difficult to instil a simple, inexpensive idea for diplomacy?
In one flourish, Gandhi may have helped dissolve widespread fears of a religio-fascist takeover of India.
The brouhaha over Trump’s scarecrow tariffs is a deliberately exaggerated reaction.
Delivering a theocratic revamping of India’s constitution would need at least a pretence of popular support.
That nationalism, embodied in the worldview of Hindutva, would be facing a decisive moment soon.
Turning an incomplete probe into a forum of speculative opinions inevitably serves the interests of those who don’t want a fair investigation.
latTo appreciate Zohran’s secular and progressive Hindu and Muslim lineage, it might help to look for a clue in his middle name.
The US leader has run a free jingle to encourage the desire for nuclear weapons among many worried countries.
Israel’s transgressions were indulged even before its cynical creation in 1948.
Three of the hotspots experiencing strife today were watching low-hanging fruits of peace, which they were robbed of.
US President Donald Trump seems to want Modi to find new friends and embrace them, preferably in India’s neighbourhood.
Women writers in South Asia are legion. They write in myriad languages but are read in many more.
Modi’s bullock cart of Hindutva is bound to clash with the guardrails of secular democracy prescribed by Gandhi and Nehru.
Moscow and Beijing have found growing numbers of applicants from across the world keen to join the coalition against Western hegemony.
Why does it seem a challenge to question the government to show evidence that points the finger at Pakistan?
The tragedy of Pahalgam is heartrending but it cannot be redressed with war drums.
The two jostling triangles are in ferment today and India intersects both. They are not equal triangles, however.
Iran says that Trump’s threat won’t work, but level-headed diplomacy could.
In the early Nazification of Germany, there was music and satire to resist the terror.
The question is who the ideal ruler was, which Aurangzeb was not. Some say it was Akbar, but the Hindu right hates him with often
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