Opinion

The global economy and few headwinds

The past few weeks have been a tumultuous ride for the global economy, as the U.S.-China trade war unexpectedly escalated and the new U.K. Prime Minister’s hardline approach to leaving

A democratic language, an authoritarian writ

Powerful populists are holding representative institutions hostage to their own projects of power. THERE was a time, not so long ago, when substantive disagreements marked debates on democracy. Minimalist theorists

What children need beyond book reading

FROM the very inception of their birth, children are acquainted with skills which help them to participate in, understand and respond to their environment as well as interact with their

Gandhi, Nehru’s commitments on Kashmir trashed

NEW Delhi said that the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35A of the Indian constitution through which it abolished Kashmir’s special status and brought it under its direct rule

MCC grant must not become a lost opportunity

With elections on the horizon, one of the strongest criticisms of the Sri Lankan government has been that it failed to boost economic growth and bring development and prosperity in

G7: the cost of uselessness

THE G7 Summit is an obsolete, useless talking shop, as Finnian Cunningham so adroitly says. RT calls it The Unbearable Pointlessness of G7. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and

Indian media’s sell-out on Kashmir

RECALLING the stellar role of the Indian media during the infamous internal Emergency imposed by the late Indira Gandhi, Lal Krishna Advani, the BJP patriarch now forcibly retired, famously noted:

Billionaires are a sign of economic failure

The New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled ‘abolish billionaires.’ The editorial raised a serious question: what if instead of being