Opinion

Meanwhile, 100s of millions die of hunger

Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry? Vijay Prashad writes I HAVE written

Contexts of liberation war – III

by Ali Ahmed Ziauddin : A SMALL Muslim army invaded Sindh as early as the 8th century but arrived as traders in both the Malabar coast and Bengal by the

When the dead speak and the living refuse to listen

Jeffrey St Clair : THE problem with writing about Gaza is that words can’t explain what’s happening in Gaza. Neither can images, even the most gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. Because what

Israeli lies about ‘Hamas stealing aid’

by Jonathan Cook : Western journalists, having promoted Israel’s claims for more than a year and half, have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide, writes Jonathan Cook ISRAEL’S

Collateral damage and Trump’s tariff

Imran Khalid : BY THE time Washington and Beijing released their latest joint statement on May 12 — ostensibly pressing pause on a spiralling tariff war — much of the

Not in the name of Islam

Tina Nandi : WAZ mahfils — Islamic religious sermons rooted in centuries of South Asian Islamic tradition — have long served as spaces for spiritual guidance, communal unity, and a

Rethinking ‘sex work’: Why the victim narrative hurts more than it helps

Nazneen Shifa : WHEN the government forcefully evicted sex workers from the brothels of Tanbazar, Narayanganj, in 1999, they did so under the guise of ‘rehabilitation’, claiming it was to

Genocide and engineered collapse of Gazan society

CONSEQUENT to the escalated Zionist genocide of Indigenous Palestinian people, and after a blockade of all goods since the beginning of March 2025, Gaza is experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis,