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Bad news for oil-importing nations
The recent European Union proposal to ban the import of Iranian crude is bad news for all oil-importing…
A story of loss and gain in Turkey
The author is a Distinguished Fellow at the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation and is former secretary, ministry of…
The Persian Puzzle
The nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers??? P5+1??? is like a feeble baby delivered after an…
A Tall Promise
In that November of 2008, Barack Obama had broken the highest glass ceiling in America to become the…
Limits of political Islam: the other face of AKP (2)
Limits of political Islam: the other face of AKP (2) Anwar Alam* Such narratives do not hold up for…
???Democracy too is Darwinian’
Socio-biology throws surprises at us, asking us to be appreciative of many other animals and even insects like…
The new great game in West Asia?
A new great game seems to be on. The locale is West Asia and the principal protagonists are…
Retardation And Religion
Imagine a 7th century Arab Bedouin village being replicated in north Malabar in verdant Kerala, with its linguistically…
These Nights In Tikrit
Ten years ago, three Indian drivers, along with three Kenyans and one Egyptian, had been kidnapped in Fallujah,…
The New Mandela
MARWAN BARGHOUTI has spoken up. After a long silence, he has sent a message from prison.In Israeli ears,…