Through Renewables, Islands Seek to Turn Urgency into Opportunity
For many small island developing states (SIDS), energy access—the power to light classrooms and keep medicines refrigerated, charge mobile phones, and cook food—is at...
Afghan Refugees: A vision for the 19th SAARC Summit
There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one’s native land. -Euripides 431 BCE The unprecedented internal civil/ethnic conflicts have been...
Kashmir-A Million Pellets for a Million Stones
The other day my friend while discussing Kashmir’s worsening situation literally rebuked me for writing yet another opinion on Kashmir’s current uprising and prevailing...
Lab Rats of Pokhran Tests
Exactly four decades ago, India conducted its first nuclear test in Pokhran. Who in the world -- wherever that is -- could care less...
Of AFSPA and Women in Kashmir: A Perspective
Armed forced Special powers Act (1958) is indeed a draconian law given its ramifications in any conflict zone of India. Manipur’s Irom Sharmila was...
The failure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pakistan Policy
The day Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sherif was invited to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swerving-in ceremony was the first policy mistake. Behind the...
The Tragedies of Dalit Abuse and Honor Killings on the Indian Subcontinent
Young women will die and Dalits suffer unless the world takes notice and forces governments to act What price honor? Two fathers, heads of...
Over NSG, India is its own rival
Despite support from the US, India could not get Nuclear Suppliers Group membership during the two-day plenary at Seoul in June. New Delhi’s eagerness...
Kashmir’s New Uprising-An Insider’s perspective
India’s Kashmir valley is once again witnessing the bloody uprising against the state for over fifty seven civilian killings. The number of injured civilian...
Kashmir: A Collective Alienation
Burhan-the prominent face of young, revived and local militancy in Kashmir valley, is no more today! Killed on July 8, by forces, which resulted...