There are moments in the long march of international affairs when a summit, otherwise destined for the archives of routine diplomacy, acquires the resonance of a turning point. The BRICS Summit convened
Alas, Bangladesh! We won you through rivers of blood in 1971—a nation born of sacrifice and unyielding resolve. Yet today, brought low by the colossal misdeeds of Professor Dr Muhammad Yunus and
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by Shen Yi The G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors’ Meeting, held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from Tuesday to Thursday, revealed a subtle but noteworthy shift: the US is no longer
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South Africa’s President and his team-including a considerable cohort of white South Africans, notably Afrikaners — were hosted at the Oval Office by President Trump, immediately following what was hailed as a
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The Constitutional Council (CC) has rejected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s nominee for the post of the Auditor General. The Opposition has torn into President Dissanayake—and quite rightly so—for his attempt to have
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To reduce dependence on crude oil imports and as an eco-friendly strategy, the Government of India is implementing plans to blend ethanol with petrol. This is a commendable initiative. As of 28
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Over the past few years, the government in India has repeatedly marginalized and suppressed Sikh identity. The decision to shut down the Kartarpur Corridor and the actions taken to target Sikh activists
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The Western hegemonists despise Cuba just as much as they loathe what I first described, fifteen years ago, as “the Cuba of Africa.” The similarities between these two small, independent, revolutionary socialist
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Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the 37-year-old military leader of Burkina Faso, has become an unlikely and polarizing symbol of resistance against Western influence and democratic dysfunction across parts of Africa. His meteoric rise
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On May 13, 2025, Bangladesh announced its conditional support for an UN-led humanitarian corridor into Myanmar’s embattled Rakhine State. The declaration came after intense backchannel negotiations between Dhaka, Naypyidaw, and key UN
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The UN’s Under-Secretary-General just warned that 14,000 Palestinians children risk starving to death in the coming hours due to the total Israeli blockade of food, medicines and water. Thousands of other adults will
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Venerable Walpola Rahula stands as one of the most transformative figures in the modern history of Buddhism. A monk, a scholar, a social reformer, and an uncompromising advocate of free thought, Rahula
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What if justice, as we venerate it in liberal-democratic orders, is merely a sophisticated veneer for entrenched power? What if its moral sublimity is but the normative consequence of institutional inertia and
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Before the Local Government (LG) elections, U.S. Ambassador Julie Chung met with President Anura Kumara to discuss the prevailing political climate. During the meeting, she mentioned that a recent opinion poll she
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This Ceasefire Will Not Hold – Because India and Pakistan Were Never Meant to Coexist: On May 16, 2025, India and Pakistan agreed – yet again – to a ceasefire along the Line of Control
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With President Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war, Europeans are now mainly responsible for prolonging it. Despite lame protestations of peace, Europe seems committed to fighting ‘to the last Ukrainian’. Unsustainable
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