Killing animals gets us nowhere
Around the world, Muslims mark the Festival of Sacrifice on the 10th day of the holy month of Dhu al-Hijjah. It honors Abraham’s willingness to slay his son Ishmael at Allah’s bidding. The killing...
Voices of the Global South
One of the many research reports that demonstrate how the developed world discriminates against the poor world is the December 2022 document by the South Centre titled "Illicit Financial Flows and Stolen Asset Recovery:...
Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health and development threat. It is everywhere. It can affect anyone, of any age, in any country. It risks people, pets, wildlife, plants, and the environment.
Antimicrobials – including...
China will survive a pandemonium of surging infections to vindicate its “dynamic-zero” Covid strategy
Having suffered or criticized China’s draconian “dynamic-zero Covid” policy for three years, all countries and peoples, not least China’s own citizens, are thrown off guard by a wildfire of infections following Beijing’s dramatic U-turn,...
First you eat animals, then animals eat you eventually
God/universe/nature has a strict rule: all the suffering caused by man will have to be borne by man. Is anyone on this planet happy? Rich or poor? Hindus call it the law of Karma....
SD Muni: ‘India is always sensitive to the growing influence of third powers in...
SD Muni is considered to be one of India’s foremost experts on the issue of Nepal. He taught for over 30 years at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He completed his Ph.D. in Nepal’s foreign policy in 1972....
Kenneth Rogoff: ‘The sanctions against Russia can work if China and India join in’
Kenneth Rogoff is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. From 2001–2003, Rogoff served as Chief Economist at the International...
What the FIFA World Cup can teach us about how to win in life?
Soccer is the planet’s most popular sport (outside of the USA), and the FIFA World Cup is therefore perhaps the largest mega-event in sports, possibly even surpassing the Olympics in worldwide fan interest.
Arguably the...
SD Muni: ‘People of Nepal have lost interest in the existing major parties, all...
SD Muni is considered to be one of India’s foremost experts on the issue of Nepal. He taught for over 30 years at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He completed his Ph.D. in Nepal’s foreign policy in 1972. He...
White Man’s Burden: Developed world’s diktats to developing countries
“Take up the White Man’s burden, Send forth the best ye breed, Go send your sons to exile, To serve your captives’ need….”
This is the first verse of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘infamous’ poem “The White...
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Save the elephants
Last week a barasingha strayed into a field in Panchkula. She ate a ball of wheat only to find it was a homemade bomb...
Why is Multilateralism in disarray?
In his seminal paper entitled "Multilateralism: the Anatomy of an Institution," John Gerard Ruggie defines multilateralism as an institutional arrangement that facilitates coordination among...
Nicola Bulley and the psychology of when people go missing –...
In the UK, on 27th January, Nicola Bulley, disappeared while walking her dog by a river in Lancashire, England. The story was widely covered in...
The Psychology of Surviving an Earthquake
The BBC News website is now reporting that the death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquake, at the time of writing, has passed 33,000, exceeding...