The speech at ‘United Nations General Assembly’ (UNGA) on September 24, 2019 of the US President Donald Trump would have amused the people all across the world for the simple reason that Trump is trying put the clock of the time backward. But it is not funny because the USA still rema

Several innocent persons are being accused of blasphemy charges, particularly against Christian and Hindu in Pakistan. A very few are willing to raise the concern of abusing blasphemy laws in the present time, when a large number of blasphemy cases surfaced on the  issue of using electro

										

 The view below is the answer to a question from the Educational Board of Ansted University.  It appeared in A Selection of Stephen Gill’s Interviews, edited by Dr. Anuradha Sharma and released by Orientalia in 2011, and appeared partly in Cyber Literature (India) Vol.9, June 2002

The writing is on the wall: rich countries, whose wealth and progress is at the cost of resource exploitation of conquered nations and the unabated combustion of fossil fuels for energy, must bear the onus of climate action. However, commitments from these governments have been lacking owing to a

The 4th Summit of Asia Pacific Cities Alliance for Tobacco Control and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Prevention (APCAT) will open in Bogor, Indonesia, on 25th September 2019, which also happens to be World Lung Day. This two-days regional meet is jointly organized by APCAT, Ministry of Health

Article 370 of the Constitution which was revoked by the Center government last month had blocked all private investments in Jammu and Kashmir from the outside for the last seven decades, which hugely impacted economic condition of the state. As 70 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir i

 War demands blood hence boots on ground are important: If Houthis [the militant Jihadis supported by Shia Iran who are fighting Sunni Saudi Arabia (SaAr) led military alliance in Yemen for the last about four years with immense human rights violations in Yemen] are responsible for September

Climate change greatly impacts the lives of migrants in different parts of the world. According to the United Nations, by 2050, up to 1 billion people could be driven away from their homes due to the worsening impacts of climate change. Both, sudden and slow onset weather events, affect the migra

 Last month port city of Aden which is currently the seat of exiled President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi government was captured by southern separatists demanding secession of South Yemen. The separatists are backed by the UAE, Saudi Arabia’s “So Called” partners in Yemen. The r

The Baseco reclamation project is one of the 22 reclamation projects planned by the Philippines government along the Manila Bay. It is being opposed tooth and nail by the 70,000 settlers (mostly fisher folks) of Baseco Compound, Tondo, a reclaimed section of the Manila Port Area, who fear losing

In its recently published commentary, “The ‘special and privileged strategic partnership’ between Russia and India”, the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) describes and analyses the historical and current context of Indo-Russian relations. Invited to Russ

This refers to the statement of the National Conference (NC) on September, 16  that the party would take legal course to challenge the detention of its party President Farooq Abdullah under the ‘Public Safety Act’ (PSA) in J&K as reported at https://indianexpress.com/article/

The provision of Article 370 in the Indian Constitution, to give a special status to Kashmir in the country and the Delhi Accord of July 24, 1952, between Kashmiri leaders and New Delhi, had once upset Pakistan so much that it rushed to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to complain that

Dr. Lad Santiago asks Stephen Gill the type of lifestyle he has and recommends for poets and writers for their healthy aging? Dr. Lad Santiago (MFA, DC, PMD, ND, DM, NMD, DCCN, DCBCN, DABFM, FAAFM, FACFM, FAAIM, MDiv(c), and MPhil, PhD) specializes in preventive medicine and clinical nutrition. H

This refers to speech of Pakistan PM Imran Khan at a rally at Muzaffarabad on September 13, 2019 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJmUrd7Vxw) where he has threatened to engulf Indian subcontinent in Jihadi-terrorism while cleverly and cunningly (but unsuccessfully) portraying Pakistan as a &lsqu