OTHER VIEW
Why ignore NCHR reports?
By: I.A. Rehman THE Pakistan government has consistently attracted criticism for lack of correct motivation for creating human rights institutions,...
Narendra Modi is not strong like Indira Gandhi – and that’s a good thing
BY: Girish Shahane A joke from the 1980s went, “Sanjay Gandhi advocated family planning and died making a loop.” Indira...
Chronicle of a victory foretold
BY: Vijay Prashad E. Ahmet Tonak On Sunday, June 24, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
At the crossroads: on mob violence
By: Shiv Visvanathan This is about footage and photographs of two events, like two strips of memory; cuttings from everydayness....
Was the emergency needed?
JUNE 26 marks the day Indira Gandhi imposed her 21-month-long emergency rule on India in 1975. There will be the...
A new vulnerability
By: Shaikh Mujibur Rehman Post-2014, cow vigilante groups have emerged as the most prominent non-state actors in India in terms...
Prohibiting chemical weapons
By: Boris Johnson Like architecture and art, the value of some international agreements lies in the eye of the beholder....
Kashmir Aka National Security is Essential For The 2019 Power Mix
Two policemen leading the mob which ultimately lynched a Muslim in Hapur is, ofcourse, part of familiar communalism which has...
Human rights and peace
By: Munir Akram A WEEK ago, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued the first-ever report on human rights...
Shujaat Sir: Man of Principles
Have I really lost my mentor, yet so uncertainty? But his blissful thoughts will always live in my mind. It...