The Pathfinder Foundation and the Embassy of the United States of America in Sri Lanka have launched a lecture series marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, opening with a discussion on
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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Every year, usually on the 14th of April, Tamil people around the world mark Puthandu, their new year, and the first day of the month of Chithirai in the Tamil solar calendar.
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by Nil “Rumour and conspiracy theories can produce even more powerful effects than reality.” With this disquietingly contemporary observation, Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor declares its central
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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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