Mary Elizabeth Truss is the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British political history. Were it not for the fact that the BBC last night screened a special episode of its most iconic and longest-running drama series as part of the celebrations of that corporation’s centenary, she would have become the first Prime Minister since Harold Macmillan not to […]
Lord Palmerston, a British statesman and two-time prime minister, is still remembered for his pragmatic theory of international relations. He described international relations as relations with no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only permanent interests. Countries and world leaders have invoked the theory ever since Lord Palmerston created it, underlying its inherent truth and infallibility. […]
And so in a puff of smoke, or in this case underwater smoke, the magician reveals his trick. The war in Ukraine was never about sovereignty nor even about further encroachment on the Russian Federation by NATO and America, although they obviously played a part in the overall plan to destabilize the Russian Federation with […]
The tragic death of a young woman in an Iranian police station who was seen collapsing on CCTV is a devastating blow to her family and friends. We all mourn the loss of an innocent young woman while we await the official outcome concerning the cause of her death. While local police are still investigating […]
In the United Kingdom, for the last 70 years, we have been habituated to one royal figurehead, Queen Elizabeth II. Her long rule spanned the bleak austerity of the 1950s and a decrepit empire lurching toward its destruction to a post-pandemic Britain grasping for some direction and cohesion. It is amazing how much shock the […]
I am somewhat confused! Why is there such a hullabaloo over what Foreign Minister A K Momen said recently in Chattagram to his targeted Hindu audience? Has he said anything wrong or different from what goes on between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh and India? Everyone in Dhaka knows about the Hasina-India Entente and that […]
Would India salvage the Hasina regime? A resounding, positive no is the answer. Contextualization of this hypothetical question is necessary before any further elaboration. A recent statement by the Bangladesh Foreign Minister, Abdul Momen, prompted this absurd question. By the way, the minister frequently makes absurd and embarrassing comments about himself, the government he represents, and the […]
“Truth is stranger than fiction. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain The front-page news and editorial in the daily Ittefaq on August 16, 1975, stated, “A Public Relief; A Historic Beginning.” This was after the military coup the previous day. The popular daily was founded by Tofazzal […]
Two very significant global events took place in our time during the first four days of the week starting on July 31. In the early hours of Sunday morning, 31 July, a US drone killed Ayman al Zawahiri on the balcony of a posh apartment in Sherpur, an affluent suburb of Kabul. The precision of the […]
The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world’s geopolitical chessboard. Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan is in that category. Thanks to her, the chances of a military confrontation between China and the United States have […]