Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
Tamil Nadu has entered one of the most unpredictable political moments in its modern history after a fractured assembly verdict left no party with a clear majority and opened the door to
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Paushali Lass is a transnational consultant, writer, and speaker whose work bridges geopolitics, culture, and identity across India, Germany, and Israel. Born in Kolkata and raised in New Delhi within a strongly
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How does a state come to justify the movement of warplanes over civilian cities as a matter of necessity rather than catastrophe? At what point does strategic language begin to absorb human
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Journalism has always been a contested practice, but in politically sensitive environments it becomes something far more volatile: a struggle over truth, authority, and control of narrative. The case surrounding the “Aisha”
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What compels a young woman raised in comfort to seek proximity to violence? What does it mean to voluntarily step into conversations with those who openly declare allegiance to brutality? And how
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What does it mean when a soldier describes his own life not as a sequence of postings, but as an unbroken continuity between home, border, and operational responsibility? This question sits beneath
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Does witnessing suffering make you more moral? Can a life surrounded by brilliance teach you justice, or does real understanding only come from seeing the world at its worst? For Tom Gross,
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Is the Global South merely a relic of postcolonial discourse, or does it retain analytical potency? Are these nations passive victims of systemic inequities, or do domestic choices exacerbate their vulnerabilities? These
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“We were the first city invaded on 22 September 1980 by Saddam’s army,” Dr Reza John Vedadi recalled of Khorramshahr, his birthplace, highlighting the formative impact of war and displacement on his
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Editor’s Note: This column was originally published in the Colombo-based Sunday Island. As I have pointed out since the first term of the Trump administration, Donald Trump was never merely a leader
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The focal point: the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. Enemy forces have captured seven key military bases, cutting off the major oil supplies of the free world. Your challenge is
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What does it mean to grow up in a state before it becomes a state, and to watch it expand beyond recognition within a single lifetime? How does a person who describes
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“Who do you say that I am?” (Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:15). “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40).
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Who decides the future of Iran? Who holds the authority to speak for a people under repression? These are questions that have guided the work of Emily Schrader, an American-born journalist, activist,
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Dr Melody Sucharewicz is a former spokesperson and strategic advisor for the Israeli government, with extensive experience in public diplomacy and communications in conflict situations. Born in Germany, she moved to Israel,
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