1. Manic “Change Round” In Sigmund Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia,” the melancholic is in want of an object, never knowing exactly what they may have lost. Melancholy transforms the object-loss of mourning into
There is a number that stopped me mid-sentence when I first read it. In April 2026, Gwadar Port processed around 11,000 standard shipping containers in a single month. For context, the same
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Sri Lanka has lost one of its most courageous and enduring voices for human rights and social justice. Suriya Wickramasinghe, Secretary of the Civil Rights Movement of Sri Lanka (CRM), former Chair
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly known as the Tamil Tigers, were a separatist militant organization founded in 1976 in Sri Lanka. The group claimed to fight for an independent
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On 15 October 1987, Thomas Sankara, the leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated alongside twelve of his senior officials. At the time, which I remember well, there was great confusion as to
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Every year on the first of May, the world stops to honour those who build it: the masons, the mill workers, the seamstresses, the sanitation crews—the millions of hands without which no
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Diplomacy, as Winston Churchill once observed, is “the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.” It is a craft of nuance, restraint,
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On April 25, 2026, Mali’s Defence Minister, Lieutenant General Sadio Camara, was killed during a coordinated series of attacks by armed groups across the country. A suicide car bomb (vehicle-borne improvised explosive
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There is a certain irony in seeing some of the world’s richest countries quietly ask the United States for financial relief. For decades, the Gulf monarchies cultivated an image of inexhaustible wealth:
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In recent years, China has positioned itself in international forums as a critic of what it describes as the “abuse” of export controls by major powers, particularly the United States and its
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Lame Ahal in Kaski district of Pokhara was a traditional Nepali Congress-voting village; it did not surprise anyone when it voted en masse for the Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP). The sound of
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