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This year, from an unexpected quarter of the world, comes a film that takes head-on, and then shatters, the myth of good and evil. That film...

In war, if there is no geography, no physical ground or territory to conquer and to bring under one’s control, it’s difficult to claim victo...

What fascinates me about a Cosmic War is that it defines the battleground at a new spatial level. And no, I’m not talking about the mystical...

Recently, on Fora.tv, I watched an interview of Iranian-American author Reza Aslan by Phil Bronstein, Editor-at-Large Hearst Newspapers and...

Nermeen Shaikh’s scholarly work of non-fiction The Present As History: Critical Perspectives on Global Power is probably not intended for n...

“State television showed hundreds of corpses scattered around the battlefield and floating in a nearby lagoon as the armed forces combed the...

There has been, and still is, so much talk and literature on the 9/11 WTC incident from the American perspective that one often forgets how ...

At a café in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man corners an American with a beseeching question, “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance?”; ...

Not only can terrorism lead to economic uncertainty, in a roundabout way, political, social and economic uncertainties – and, therefore, dis...

Does terrorism have a negative impact on our economy? I simply don’t have the wherewithal to provide a quantitative response to that questio...

India is no stranger to terror attacks. Our history is replete with instances of invaders and marauders attacking our country and terrorisin...

It’s one thing to blame Pakistan for striking terror into India’s heart from across the border. It’s another to resolve terror within the co...

From an economic perspective, India surviving the global economic recession in the coming years seems plausible. In fact, as I’ve tried to e...

“What is the truth behind the fitful hints which reach us intimating that there exists in India an old wisdom that promises the most extraor...

At the G20 Summit’s trillion dollar global recovery plan announced in London last week, although Eastern Europe had been singled out as the ...

UK’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has put it succinctly at the G20 Summit in London recently: there are no quick fixes to resolving the world...

President Barack Obama’s declaration, at the G20 Summit in London on 2 April 2009, that the United States (or rather, the American consumer)...

“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” – P...

“That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our ...

“It is my opinion that the earth is very noble and admirable by reason of so many and so different alterations and generations which are inc...