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By: Hamid Dabashi In the age of “fake news” and “alternative facts” you, of course, have “fake investigations”, too – the sort that FBI did on Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual misconduct allegations and

By: Dr A Q Khan The Chinese are our best friends while the Americans always try to find some fault with us. Most recently, they even blamed China for our debt problems

ALL federations make foreign affairs a central subject. But none render the states as dependent on the centre as India does. Chief ministers take its permission for travel abroad. As citizens, they

By: Khaled Ahmed On Sunday, September 16, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that he would start “work immediately” on providing passports to the children of refugees born in Pakistan. He might soon

By: Faisal Devji Since Myanmar’s latest bout of violence against the Rohingya began in 2012, there has been a slow uptick of outrage in the Muslim world. But it was only recently,

By: Paula Akpan Growing up in the UK as a black person means that you’re living an existence that is constantly erased, particularly in school. Many will recall the history topics that

BY: S.RAMACHANDRAN PILLAI THE RSS and the BJP have been desperately trying to capture a space for themselves in the political sphere of Kerala for the past many decades. The RSS has

BY: I.A. Rehman PARLIAMENT is currently seized of two significant bills, one for punishing the crime of causing enforced disappearance and the other for the trial of blasphemy and other offences under

BY: Sanjaya Baru An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent and timely communication. The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even

BY: Vaishna Roy The degree and extent of the revelations over the last fortnight have revealed an ugly, festering side to our society. The long, arduous and often invisible history of women’s