In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy faced an intricate geopolitical situation, one that entangled his administration with Israel’s covert nuclear ambitions. At the heart of this conflict was Israel’s nuclear
For more than six decades, the Indus Waters Treaty has endured as one of the most improbable success stories in modern diplomacy—an agreement between two adversarial states that managed to outlast wars,
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch speaks with a clarity that resists time. Her voice, described in Observer UK accounts of her life and testimony, is forthright, steady, and entirely free of self-pity. It is not
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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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Standing in the dust of Çatalhöyük—a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site known to archaeology since the 1960s, yet virtually non-existent in discussions about political science and law—a question haunted me: “How come no one told
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Note: On 7 April, after his ghastly genocidal threat that ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’, US President Donald Trump agreed to a provisional two-week ceasefire reportedly based on a set of proposals from
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Easter Sunday recalls an adversity that only a few still living can remember, when the Second World War came to the doorstep of Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka. Eighty-four years have passed since
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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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“For those who believe, no proof is necessary; for those who do not believe, no proof is enough.” ~ Attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas The Revelation This essay is not meant to
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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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