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September 16, 2026
Geopolitics/Interviews/Social

Against Certainty: My Talk with Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

In a wide-ranging conversation, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani reflects on the unsettled nature of identity, the limits of historical truth and the moral responsibility of writing about people who can no longer speak for

Columns/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/Social

Let Comedians Say Anything: Why Comedy Is Society’s Last Honest Mirror

Summary: Comedy thrives on irreverence, vulnerability, and the refusal to accept a society’s official story at face value. As political and cultural pressures narrow the bounds of acceptable speech, comedians occupy a uniquely vital role: they can reveal what is broken,

December 3, 2025

Where Lions and Tigers Remember

Arts/Diplomacy

The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough.” — Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most

Loyalty and Disavowal: A Tool for Division

Columns

“O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly and afterward

Hijab: Choice or Rule – An Indian Viewpoint

October 23, 2022
Columns/Human Rights

The Hijab: To wear, or not to wear, that is the question. The question was answered by two Honourable Judges of the Supreme Court but, at the end of the day on

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Time Now That Hindu Religion Should be Defended

October 10, 2022
India

Millions of Hindus who lived in the past and who live at present time have been believing that philosophy and way of life enunciated by Hindu religion and enriched by Vedas ,

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Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible

September 24, 2022
Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920–2019), the school struggled

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The Role of Religion in Our Society

September 10, 2022
Defence/Diplomacy/Geopolitics/United States

We are agricultural societies that have industrialized within one or two generations…If you look at Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore – there’s been one remarkable phenomenon – the rise of religion…there

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