Genghis Khan, one of history’s most formidable conquerors, is being celebrated in modern Mongolia as a symbol of national unity, political strength and cultural identity, despite the mass killings and devastation that
Thamirabarani River (Sanskrit: Tāmraparṇī), is located in the Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli districts of Tamil Nadu, South India. It is on the southeast coast of India, and it sits directly across the Gulf of Mannar from the north-western coast of
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Sixty-five years after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, newly declassified documents have shed stark new light on one of the most consequential intelligence failures of the Cold War, revealing how close
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Cuba’s deepening crisis has once again pulled the Vatican into a familiar role. In March, it was revealed that Cuban officials turned to the Holy See to help persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to
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by Nil What, exactly, does it mean to topple a statue and then argue about its meaning? “Yeah, he’s the founder of the country, but 300 slaves is a lot of slaves”
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Jonathan Daly’s The Man Who Knew Russia, through its sustained intellectual portrait of Richard Pipes, is best read not as a neutral scholarly biography but as a forceful argument about Russia’s historical
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Bangladesh presently confronts a moment of acute political strain and profound normative reckoning. The permanent proscription of the Awami League—long regarded as the country’s oldest, largest, and founding political force—through the conversion
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Shariati and Fanon The intellectual relationship between Shariati and Frantz Fanon is one of the most fertile and least studied of the twentieth century. Shariati did not merely admire Fanon; he
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In Ratnapura district, the Kalatuwawa Reservoir has revealed a long-lost village as water levels have dropped by 38.5 feet due to dry weather in March 2026. The reservoir, an artificial water body
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The following account draws from a series of letters exchanged between Rohana Wijeweera’s mother, his younger brother Ananda Wijeweera, and the lawyer Bala Thampo during the period of intense state repression that
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Today marks 55 years since the 1971 People’s Uprising. This year’s April Heroes’ Day falls at a time when the JVP government is engaged in a strenuous effort to fulfill the lofty
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“The enemy of my enemy is my friend…” J.R. decided to release Rohana Wijeweera from prison after reading this idea in Machiavelli’s book The Prince. If J.R. had not released Wijeweera, there
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by Nil Krzysztof Drozdowski’s The Murder of Heinrich Himmler: How New Evidence Suggests Foul Play positions itself as both an intervention in one of the Second World War’s lingering enigmas and a
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by Durga Matti Friedman’s Out of the Sky presents itself as a work of recovery: a retrieval of marginal figures—Jewish parachutists in the Second World War—whose stories have been submerged beneath more
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by Eric Saïd Khatibi’s The End of the Sahara confronts readers with a world of moral ambiguity, social collapse, and personal despair, set against the backdrop of Algeria at the precipice of
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by Luxman Roger Seifert’s Solidarity with Strings is an ambitious and uncompromising intervention into the historiography of British labour and its entanglements with colonial struggles in the Caribbean. At once a work
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