A child is treated at the malnutrition department of Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul. Photo: AFP / Bilal Guler / Anadolu Agency
On February 8, 2022, UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund) Afghanistan sent out a bleak set of tweets....
Philosophy is an unceasing pursuit for truth through dialogue. It entails the dauntless exercise of reason—amid myriad challenges, pressures, and persuasions, especially from traditions, ideologies, or religious systems. Philosophy is also one of many ways of setting out social...
NO budget in recent memory has been presented at a time when the economy is in such dire straits: unemployment is so bad that there are job riots in Bihar and UP; wealth and income inequalities are among the...
At a time when the Sri Lankan government has sought and obtained Indian help to address the overwhelming forex crisis, the decision to auction 105 fishing trawlers and other vessels from Tamil Nadu and Karaikal enclave in the Union...
The defining feature of a democracy is the right of its citizens to question the government on its actions. But the moment this right is denied or under challenge—for one or the other reason—democracy goes in decline. Election is...
THE Indian economy is currently caught in a vicious spiral of inflation, stagnation, and a widening of the fiscal deficit. And this spiral is set to become even more vicious because inter alia of developments in the world economy.
Even before the...
By Sanjay Roy
WORLD Inequality Report 2022 underlines the sharp divide between the rich and the poor that occurred as a result of neoliberal policies pursued by global capital using the hegemonic and asymmetric architecture of global institutions. The report...
Kerala is likely to witness a surge in research spending in spite of the challenges in higher education, says Dr Sabu Thomas, Vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University (MGU), Kerala. He was speaking at the valedictory session of the Interdisciplinary...
Addressing an online event on “Countering use of crypto-currencies to finance terrorism” recently, Chief of Defence Staff and Army Commander General Shavendra Silva called for a South Asian treaty to counter the transnational and connected nature of terrorists and...
BY Steven W. Thomas
Last year, I wrote an article—“Ethiopian Women Making Movies”—about the central role of women in a remarkably diverse Ethiopian cinema. At the time, I was concerned primarily with those who lived and worked in Ethiopia’s capital...
