World leaders are meeting this week at the UN General Assembly, marking the organization’s 75th anniversary. The gatherings will be virtual but the challenges will remain, as they’ve always been, daunting. Heaven knows, leaders of the 193 member states, gathering at a time of great disruption for the world, compounded by a virus that has […]
India’s biggest conglomerate Tata has been selected to build the country’s new Parliament building, which is expected to cost $117 million and likely to be completed in 21 months, so Prime Minister Narendra Modi can celebrate India’s 75 years of independence in 2022 in style. This new Parliament building is part of Modi’s grand $2.7 […]
No historical analysis of terrorist bombing campaigns, false flag operations, hostage diplomacy, and political assassinations in the modern era is complete without examining the manner in which Israel has executed its foreign policy objectives in the Middle East during the course of the past 50 years. A former Mossad operative quoted in Ronen Bergman’s Rise […]
“When we embrace ahimsa, we recognize there is no place for prejudice, no place for violence, no place for hate — not here in America, not in India, not anywhere in the world, and not in Hinduism,” said Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi in September 2018. Krishnamoorthi — who first took office in January 2017 — was speaking at the […]
Bahrain’s decision to normalize relations with Israel reinforces the pro-Israel pivot in the Gulf. Coming less than four weeks after a similar announcement by the United Arab Emirates, it appears that the taboo has been broken. Arab states can now recognize Israel and establish diplomatic, as well as security and trade ties, in an effort […]
The Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP), after 29 years in operation in the United States, formally registered as a “foreign agent” on 27 August 2020. Asked what prompted this sudden change in status, OFBJP Vice-President Adapa Prasad told me, “We learned about FARA regulation very recently and upon review of the regulation, we thought it best […]
In this piece, I will attempt to answer the question that I asked in last week’s column, in which I tried to assess the French approach toward Turkey. I will elaborate on the general view of the Western countries toward Turkey by answering the following questions: Why has the West been otherizing and alienating Turkey? […]
It is the 19th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. To this day, people gather and offer their take on that event that had forever changed our Middle East as we knew it. This is where I found myself on this recent September 11, sandwiched between a […]
For years, India has been promising to bring the killing of Bangladeshis along the Indo-Bangla border down to zero. But the reality is, border killings by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel have been on the rise in recent years. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will again ask its Indian counterpart to stay true to its […]
19 years ago, my country was attacked by a bunch of religious extremists. I worked as a physician not far away from the World Trade Center, at the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Cornell University. I will never forget that day. I will never forget the fact that these terrorists had infiltrated my country using […]