Opinion

Darkness grows, from America to India

IF DONALD Trump’s shock election for the world’s most powerful office had been seen as an accident and as a recipe for disaster by many, he has done everything to

Sporadic notes: BirthStrike

SCIENTISTS to some people are bad. The cause: scientists present horrifying facts about climate. To many others, scientists are good people, doing incredible work, helping humanity. With the latest findings

Is there any way out?

I am so hurt. Every person who can think is hurt. Parents are more than worried and shocked. Parents of daughters are in phobia. We are so unfortunate, we are

The UN’s free speech problem

ANYONE willing to consult the international law book on the subject of free speech will find it heavy with protections for free speech. The UN Declaration of Human Rights features,

Glacial melt: the European Alps

The European Alps is not free from the curse — glacial melt. Scientists have found: The European Alps could lose its glaciers up to 90 per cent by 2100 if

Don’t expect justice from imperial criminal court

The ICC provides no legal counterbalance to the arrogance of an empire’s power. It is the empire’s court. IN JUNE, a group of international lawyers sued the European Union for

BJP’s dream state is Muslims’ purgatory

WHEN Indian Hindus are moved by the plight of Palestinians, they are perhaps influenced by the fact that Palestine belongs to the third world and Asia. In the case of

How US-China could create ‘multi-bilateral’ world order

Andrew Hammond and Risto Penttila : It is now more than a decade since then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared that “the G20 foreshadows the planetary governance of the twenty-first century”.