The United Nations has announced that International Women’s Day in 2022 is for Gender Equality for sustainable tomorrow. I thought of the day  by thinking of peace and freedom for Indian women in the digital era. I have written about Indian women before.

There have

If there is one word which represents best the use of physical (military / militant) power for achieving some ideology (whether religion like Islam or any temporal ideology) then it is Jihad. In contemporary world it is not merely Islamist Jihadis (like Taliban in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, ISIS etc)

US President Biden said in his ‘State of the Union address - ‘Let me be clear, our forces are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine’. The US-boots on ground (which would have roped-in major countries of Europe too, if not NATO) is the only ef

As a leader of free wold the USA can’t discharge its responsibilities without (i)- Calling the bluff of Putin about nuclear flare-up (ii)- Showing  authoritarian China its ‘proper’ place (iii)- Inculcating political responsibility in largest democracy India (iv)- Givin

As a believing Christian Prez Biden in his February 24 national address, despite the UN on the soil of the USA (with 193 member countries mostly, without UN, too small to defend their independence & sovereignty), leaves Ukraine (the David) alone to fight invading Russia (the Goliath). 

Biden should pick-up gauntlet thrown by Putin for hot war (World War-III) ONLY by clubbing it with Cold War-II: On February 21 President Putin addressed the nation ( as given at http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67828 ) about Russia recognizing sovereignty & independence of the Donba

Introduction: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), formerly known as the ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, was announced by the Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013. China has thus far framed the BRI as a politically neutral and development-focused endeavor that does not seek to interfe

The incident of religious:  terrorism in Sialkot is very unfortunate which is a clear proof of the insecurity of minorities in Pakistan.

Accusations of blasphemy. Killing or burning a person alive is not the first incident in the history of Pakistan

A few years ago,

Introduction: Illicit drug production, the cultivation and processing of crops and synthetic elements for drugs and the trade thereof have, foremost, been widely successful within Afghanistan. The long history of drug trade in Afghanistan, its triggers for this far-ranging illicit and unregulated

For centuries, the institution of the Khalifa (Caliph), the temporal Head of Muslims around the world, was seen as an important symbol of Islamic unity. However, after the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Allied powers in the First World War, Muslims worried that the office of the Khalifa would

    Myanmar is one of Bangladesh’s closest neighbors with historic connectivity going back centuries. The 271 km long Bangladesh-Myanmar border is very important for Bangladesh due to its strategic position, although at present the area is militarized due to its ongoing inter

 Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Sri Lanka on February 23 and 24 at the invitation of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. This is his first visit to Lanka after coming to power. He said, ‘I go to cricket after finishing my studies, and you (Mahinda Rajapaksa)

Introduction: Global terrorism continues to be a multifaceted security threat that decisively shapes the policies of political actors worldwide. An important component of contemporary terrorism is the financing mechanisms connected to the activities of terrorist organizations (TOs): TOs have prov

The tendency towards authoritarianism, the flagrant disregard for painstakingly agreed rules and conventions of international order, the denigration of human rights across wide and dispersed geographies, and the seeming inability of those tasked with preventing these to do so has meant that event

In August 2019, the Indian government nullified Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, ending State Subject Rule (SSR) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). For the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), nullifying Article 370 had been a long-standing political aim (India Today, 2019). SSR had been in place in