Opinion

The re-election of Xi Jinping and the ensuing celebrations among his followers and lobby have hit two roadblocks: a fresh bout of Covid-19 infections, and leaked videos of state crackdown on workers protesting harsh restrictions. In early November, China reported a spike in Covid-19 cases – the reported number was 5496 – highest since May […]

While raking up the past, let us also remember that India took to the UNSC a straight-forward request that, in order to avert war, the UN should make Pakistan withdraw all its personnel from the state, which was now a part of India. Under the British delegation's influence, the UN turned that simple request into an issue for the Security Council to arbitrate between Pakistan and India.

The statement of the Shahi Imam of Ahmadabad’s Jama Masjid Shabbir Ahmed Siddiqui in Gujarat has exposed the general religious attitude of the ummah towards Muslim women in the political sphere. The usual suspects can be expected to come up with apologia or maintain a strategic silence since this controversial statement doesn’t correspond with the […]

Back in the 1990s when we were leaving everything behind in order to save ourselves, our women and children, we hadn’t thought we were leaving for good. The general feeling was that everyone will be back when things calm down. 32 years have passed since then and yet we are still nowhere close to going […]

Denial is at the core of human behaviour. In the psychology of human behaviour, denialism is a person’s choice to deny reality to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Uncomfortable truths can be very hard to face and especially to be held responsible for such uncomfortable truths by virtue of belonging to that community can be […]