By: Manini Chatterjee For a long time now, many have suspected Narendra Modi of being the patron saint of the army of trolls that stalks the social media, spewing vitriol...

By: Sankarshan Thakur Ever been to Rupaiyah Falls? No? Are you quite sure? Check again. Look down, look hard, and please take precautions against vertigo, if you have the tendency....

By: Joe Macaron On July 16, US President Donald Trump will meet in the Finnish capital Helsinki a triumphant Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has just secured another victory in...

By: Souparna Lahiri From forced eviction to restrictions on access to resources, conservation practices have long been tied to violence against the indigenous peoples that live in forest areas. In...

By: Anuradha Roy When Nathacha Appanah began to write The Last Brother, it was 2005, the seas around Europe were calm and the boatloads of desperate people in flight from...

By: Naveed Qazi South Korea has its own problems of genocide. The country has hosted several military dictatorships. For decades, the Bodo League massacre had been unknown to the world....

By: T.C.A. RAGHAVAN Is Pakistan changing and if so how do we read and measure that change? Jamsheed Marker, a distinguished Pakistani diplomat who died recently, comes to mind in...

By: Elizabeth Murray Aboard the international solidarity boat Al-Awda, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), we are a more motley crew than the passengers aboard the Minnow in the...

By: Sankarshan Thakur Just a footnote, if you will, to the annual rite of fuming and frothing over the Emergency, now that it is beginning to ebb and settle: there...

By: Marwan Kabalan As Syria's civil war draws to a close, Iran's activity in the country is coming under increasing scrutiny. The US, Israel, and the Gulf states are all...