By Ananya S Guha
The point about Donald Trump’s belief is that it is no ideology. It is simply playing to the gallery with slogans like ‘this is your land’, mind you, not country. It also pooh poohs the very notion of cultural integration and assimilation. It is monolithic in character and nature. Monolith cultures have a way of resembling a herd mentality.
By Deeba Abedi
Many call Trump’s issuance of a temporary travel ban, at least in part, race driven. Cries of racial preference and bigotry simply do not apply to Donald Trump for several reasons. For one, Trump is banning travel (or attempting to) from nations that openly sponsor terrorism, such as Iran which gives money to Hezbollah. Furthermore, it should be noted that Islam is not a race, it is a religion.
By Rameez Raja
Israel has kept the status of its nuclear capability deliberately veiled and unacknowledged in order to shape the strategic perceptions and actions of others – friends and foes alike. This nuclear code of conduct of Israel has been regarded as its policy of ‘nuclear opacity, Animut in Hebrew.
By Urba Malik
The very idea of loving beyond the traditionally set parameters of caste, religion, class or color is liberating, not humiliating for us. In fact, what is humiliating is the idea of constraining one’s emotions under the garb of societal honor; what is insulting is the exercise of societal control over someone’s choice.
By Syed Akrama
The 40-minute documentary, “The White Helmets” won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short but one of its three cinematographers, Khaled Khatib, was denied entry into the United States. Director Orlando von Einsiedel accepted the award and read the statement from the White Helmets founder, Raed al-Saleh, which had one particular phrase from the Koran: “To save one life is to save all of humanity.”
By Rama Naga
It’s time to put more effort to make it a movement not only at a university in Delhi but also in all the universities of India. We have to break every conspiracy, which narrows down the scope of the movement by terming it as “Left verses Right”. This fight is not about “Left versus Right” but it is a fight for rest verses right.
By Fazzur Rahman Siddiqui
The Arab region will have a set of accumulated crisis in forms of unemployment, increasing demography, urbanization, and threat of absence of economic reform, apart from the present conflict caused by the uprising. The security issue will be a defining common feature of states policy and in the process, the democracy, the main component of the Arab aspiration, would be the ultimate victim.
By Mujeeb Jaihoon
The assembly of protesters had members of all ages, possibly ranging from age 0 to 70. Mothers held their infants, despite the single degree temperature. They had gathered to express their solidarity for the desperate refugee children suffering in camps across Europe. This was certainly an impossible sight to witness in the Asian and Arab countries.
By Mujeeb Jaihoon
Although he maintains a safe distance from the social media, he admits, people spend more time on the web-based content than reading books and thus “one has to give some content for this platform.” Hence, many of his talks are available on several websites including YouTube.
By Gowhar Fazili
The mediocrity of the Indian intellectuals and activists has thus rendered the word azadi into an empty signifier that can mean anything and nothing and divested it of all its political and critical content at the slightest nudge from the Right. Is it because they lack moral courage or are they deep down psychically aligned with majoritarian nationalism?
By M.H.A.Sikander
Here we must ask some genuine questions: Will an independent Kashmir face similar problems of structural injustices, poverty, gender parity, economic inequality, and rule of elites and feudal lords? Will the Indian trooper be replaced by a Kashmiri one with similar powers to kill and maim with impunity? Will we suppress the political aspirations of our own people in a similar manner as India is doing now?
By Dar Wasim
However, like the great leader, Nelson Mandela, in South Africa, Maqbool too did not give up on his commitment and stood firm. The struggle for freedom from poverty, hunger, and occupation was paramount for him. India tried every opportunity to rope him in, as it did with the rest of the leaders. But India failed in its attempt.
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