Description automatically generatedCovid-19 has posed innumerable health, economic, and social challenges for all, including people living with HIV. It has exposed the fragility of health systems around the globe and has diverted political attention and funding from other infectious diseases like

On July 21 as per Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley,  the Taliban has acquired much territory during the last 10 months and 212 of the 419 district centers in Afghanistan are now under Taliban control but he said none of the 34 provincial capitals have been seize

The Afghan Government and Taliban have been doing peace talks in Doha (Qatar). The chances of success of these and other peace talks will increase tremendously if India issues a warning that it will help the GoA militarily in case Taliban do not arrive at a peaceful settlement and continue to use

Col (Ret) Ajai Shukla is right when he says in an interview on ‘The Wire’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv258JA7RFs ) that military personnel deployed at Eastern Ladakh are worried about Chinese activities over there which Government of India (GoI) is denying hence they (as ‘

Description automatically generated with medium confidenceabetting corporate grabbing of land and resources, which is pushing farmers out of agriculture. Corporations are exercising more and more control over food and agriculture and influencing public policies. The forthcoming United Nations Foo

The farmer’s leader Gurnam Sigh Chaduni (of Bhartiya Kisan Union) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC5_stPUd1Y has given an statement that - “[ Farmers instead of following merely ‘mission Uttar Pradesh’( where they are trying to defeat BJP by asking voters to vote for any

In a crucial policy shift, India recently acknowledged that it entered into backchannel communications with the Taliban of Afghanistan. The Taliban’s Quetta-based leadership and Qatari officials have also confirmed these backchannel meetings, as reported at https://www.aljazeera.com/opinion

 In the last 18 months, first the Corona pandemic then the US elections 2020 and then Afghanistan have proved the USA as dysfunctional State (ii)- Earlier the Trump-administration and now Biden-administration are pro-China despite their public postures (iii)- Religion is custodian of society

Kurdistan is back in the news. Military clashes broke out at the beginning of June 2021 between the Kurdistan Development Party (KDP) — the region’s biggest political party — and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

This has sparked debate as to whether t

It is best left to historians to enlighten us how much the abandoning of Afghanistan by India (after PM Modi came to power in 2014 as revealed by former Director General Delhi Group Radha Kumar in an interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDEmjy9BSII ) was responsible for the decision of the U

Mehbooba should take advantage (of the wish of the USA to stabilize Afghanistan) by working for Greater-India (from Myanmar to Afghanistan) which will solve the chronic & gory Kashmir problem too. 

--After a meeting of all the political parties of J&K on June 24 with Prime

Kashmiri leaders should take advantage (of the wish of the USA to stabilize Afghanistan) by working for Greater-India (from Myanmar to Afghanistan) which will solve the chronic & gory Kashmir problem too. 

God only knows what has happened to Indian Muslims. The Muslims could ha

Secular democracy is the result of the long struggle of Europeans who offered a lot of lives, blood and properties during long religious wars in 16th and 17th centuries and then only they could free their mind from two authorities (by bringing armed forces under their representatives, the civilia

Highest level of political leadership in Covid response is indeed unprecedented if we look at other health responses such as those for HIV, non-communicable diseases, TB or other communicable diseases that affect our lives. But were people having any voice in helping shape the response to the cor

India is stunned to see that so-called all powerful Prime Minister Narendra Modi (who could easily install his surrogates not only as Chief Ministers in Haryana etc but also in the ministries of powerful leaders of BJP like Finance Minister late Mr. Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari etc)