Nirupama Subramanian On Saturday, Pakistan gave Balochistan the martyr the region’s nationalist cause lacked these last 58 years, when security forces killed Akbar Khan Bugti. The irony: the 79-year-old

Uri AvneryIn his latest speech, which infuriated so many people, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uttered a sentence that deserves attention: “Every new Arab generation hates Israel more than the previous one

Cahal Milmo While his peers from St Augustine’s Catholic school were this month contemplating university careers or first jobs, Jason Chelsea was preoccupied with a different future: his first tour of du

Satya Sagar  ‘Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist’ said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That was me, a bearded Indian working for a Sri Lankan video prod

Noam ChomskyThough there are many interacting factors, the immediate issue that lies behind the latest US-Israeli invasion of Lebanon remains, I believe, what it was in the four preceding invasions: the Israel-

Dolly KikonOn 9 August, 2006, the Manipur education minister, Mr. Nandakumar warned the hill districts of Manipur, government of Nagaland, and civil society to refrain from interfering in Manipur’s issues. He

Nanda WickramasingheOngoing fighting initiated by the Sri Lankan military against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is creating a social catastrophe. More than 160,000 people have been displaced since

Yoginder SikandIn both radical Islamist as well as Hindutva discourse, Islam and Indian nationalism are seen as w0 holly compatible. Radical Islamists consider nationalism as an ‘idol’, demanding the loyalt

Walden BelloBeirut - The bittersweet mood in Beirut on this day when the ceasefire took effect was perhaps best expressed by Rahul, a taxi driver, who tells me, “We won, but at what cost? So many people displ

M K Bhadrakumar One of the significant contributions to the “war on terror” by Britain’s home secretary David Blunkett before his abrupt departure from the Tony Blair cabinet last year was his statem

Siddharth VaradarajanWHEN ISRAEL attacked Lebanon a month ago, it had two stated and two unstated military objectives. The stated objectives were the unconditional release of two of its soldiers captured by Hiz

David Shoshani'Following the prerequisite described in the last article come the three phases that lead to TrueLove. The first one is ‘the processing phase’, the second one is ‘the releasing phase’ and

Satya Sagar  15th August 2006 marks yet another Independence Day for the modern Indian nation. Fifty nine years ago this day Pandit Nehru, the country’s first Prime Minister, famously declared the new bo

Uri AvneryToday, the war entered its fifth week. Hard to believe: our mighty army has now been fighting for 29 days against a “gang” and “terrorist organization”, as the military commanders like to desc

Praful BidwaiA crass and hysterical nationalism is taking hold among a section of the Indian middle class in response to the Mumbai blasts. This nationalism is paranoid. It considers India uniquely vulnerable t

Jonathan CookIf there were any remaining illusions about the purpose of Israel’s war against Lebanon, the draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a “cessation of major hostilities” pu

Robert Freeman  Few issues in American history - perhaps only slavery itself - are as charged as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. Was it necessary? Merely posing the question provokes indignation

Peter WattA few years ago, the sanctimonious Tony Blair lectured us on the new era of “humanitarian” intervention. Now we would be “fighting not for territory but for values,” he proclaimed. The governm

John Paul LederachI propose the following definition:Conflict transformation is to envision and respondto the ebb and flow of social conflictas life-giving opportunitiesfor creating constructive change processe

Jeremy SeabrookBy 2005, there were 83,000 dollar millionaires in India. The country showed, after South Korea, the highest annual increase in millionaires (a 20 per cent leap over 2004). In the United States, a