Opinion

One is not born, but rather becomes a woman – Simone de Beauvoir Women’s representation is still a highly contested issue in the Indian political system. Across India, gender inequality results in unequal opportunities, and while it adversely impacts the lives of both genders, statistically, it is girls who are the most disadvantaged. Some Indian […]

  Why should we treat Ukraine as a model? Ever since 2019, with the BJP government getting re-elected, the western media has been shouting hoarsely about the ‘right-wing Hindutva movement’ in India. But more pertinent than ‘Is India really a right-wing country now’, is the question: Does the US have an issue with right-wing ideology? […]

There are many who divided our nation. But there are few who fought till their last breath to unite our partitioned nation. Amongst the galaxy of freedom fighters, if there is one great fighter that the people of Assam should be thankful for being part of India, it is Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Assam was […]

Shooting your own foot Let us begin with a clip from an article in CBS titled “Russia’s Ruble is the strongest currency in the world this year”: “Commodity prices are currently sky-high, and even though there is a drop in the volume of Russian exports… the increase in commodity prices more than compensates for these […]

Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos revealed in February 2021 that Greece and Turkey had almost gone to war three times in the summer of 2020 due to the crisis with the Turkish Oruç Reis research vessel violating Greece’s territorial waters. Turkey’s aggression was quiet in the summer of 2021 as the country was in the […]