“About a hundred years ago a great son of India, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, urged the Imperial Legislative Assembly to confer on the Indian people the Right to Education. About ninety years later the Constitution of India was amended to enshrine the Right to Education as a fundamental right. Today, our Government comes before you to […]
There is only a handful of figures in the Israel-Palestinian conflict that have guided peace efforts and remain relevant today. Israeli President Shimon Peres helped shepherd in the Oslo accords, but remains on the outskirts of current policy efforts in his ceremonial role. The memory of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Authority […]
Yesterday’s post comparing Russia Today to Fox News provoked an impassioned rebuttal. Russian translator, blogger and Second Life estate agent Catherine Fitzpatrick of Minding Russia berated me in a comment for ‘prettifying RT’ and ‘mislead[ing] the public’. What follows is one man’s quest to set the record straight. Dear Catherine, Thank you for your spirited […]
The High Court declared today that the provocative Crossfire Exhibition must be allowed to reopen. Eight days after the politically charged exhibition was shut down by the police deployed to the Drik Gallery, the High Curts decision now compels the police to withdraw, thereby removing all obstruction to the conduct and proceedings of the exhibition. […]
Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan as president a few days ago, and during his 6 hours in the country he met with President Karzai, Gen. McChrystal, and Ambassador Eikenberry. It has been reported that Obama pressed Karzai on clamping down on corruption and that their conversations were very much ‘down to business’. […]
They were blasts heard round the world, except on Russian TV. And in the wake of the Moscow bombs, many Russians have condemned “the near-silence of the state-controlled TV channels hours after the explosions”, according to the BBC. One blogger, Anton Nossik, noted that a full 3 hours after the attacks, “he found normal daytime […]
The Obama-Netanyahu scuttle continues, but the White House issued a clear statement on Iran that falls in line with the top Israeli priority. At a press conference today President Barack Obama said he would like to see new, tough sanctions on Iran “this spring,” meaning the administration is on the verge of implementing new sanctions […]
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is using the possible unwillingness of a southern rebel group to participate in April’s elections as a pretext to threaten withholding the referendum on southern secession. This should come as a shock to absolutely no one who pays attention to Sudan. The odds have always been poor that al-Bashir would allow […]
The upcoming War Crimes trial is playing out domestically in expected and unexpected ways. It was altogether expected that the BNP would try to despoil the proceedings by alleging partisan motives–members of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a member of the previous ruling BNP coalition, stand to be accused of war crimes. Moreover, it was expected that […]
. . . A few stories from recent weeks that slipped through the cracks but warrant attention: At The New Republic’s new and exciting online endeavor, “The Book,” Ben Wallace-Wells, a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, reviews Bertrand Taithe’s The Killer Trail: A Colonial Scandal in […]
Thailand: Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva not only kept his word to meet with opposition Red Shirt leaders, but also allowed the exchange to be carried live on state television. In regard to one of the Red Shirt’s central demands, Vejjajiva agreed to consider dissolving Parliament and calls for new elections, a move that many Red […]
The BNP has begun to stake a claim that it will overthrow the current government using country-wide mass protests. The Daily Star reports her as saying: “I will wage a movement and oust the government. I have done it in the past and am ready to take to the street again.” The last time she […]
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