The Taliban’s stunning victory in Afghanistan was an immense shock to nations around the globe. In a matter of weeks, 20 years of history have been reversed at a pace nobody anticipated. This victory has left many political pandits flabbergasted and has also proved wrong a huge pile of books and research papers. Though the […]
The Scarlet Plague, written by Jack London, a US writer and journalist, was one of the first examples of post-apocalyptic novel in modern literature. Set in a devastated and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the spread of Red Death, an uncontainable contagion that desolated and depopulated the world. The […]
Washington-based global lender World Bank, through concessional lending arms, has tried to foster its development initiatives in Bangladesh since 1972, committing more than $30 billion by backing priorities in economic, social and infrastructural development. Since 2018, this UN-affiliated multilateral body, the largest source of financial assistance to developing nations, has committed a total $590 million […]
Recently we celebrated ‘charity day’ all over the world, with the sole and core intention to make it a means of poverty alleviation. Charity has multi- dimensional impacts on society, both positive and negative ones. We live in a very multi-layered society characterised by unequal distribution of wealth among different strata and sub-strata. We have […]
What went wrong for the US in Afghanistan that it had to kneel before the Taliban militia, earlier thought to be a ragtag army in the West, wielding traditional weapons that could not have posed serious threat to the world’s most sophisticated army, let alone seizing all provincial capitals and ultimately Kabul quite swiftly, that […]
Suddenly, the idea put forth by French President, Emmanuel Macron, late last year does not seem so far-fetched or untenable after all. Following the US-NATO hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan, European countries are now forced to consider the once unthinkable: a gradual dismantling from US dominance. When, on September 29, 2020, Macron uttered these words: “We, […]
“Grief is a swallow, he said. One day you wake up and you think it’s gone, but it’s only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.” This book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019 and I am not surprised for […]
Mourning the death of any creature is mourning the nature of the world itself — it means not accepting and appreciating the world for what it is “But when the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud” It was a time when I was singing the songs of autumn. Trees were […]
Everyone is waiting for things to get back to the pre-Covid days. Students, their parents, and their teachers are waiting for class work to resume; the wait has been too long. While all the other activities, be it agriculture, manufacturing, trade, tourism, transport or aviation, have suffered heavy losses but the loss to education is […]
It is merely an administrative strategy document that lacks vision for the promotion of the film industry. It is not a film policy but rather a secondary tourism policy. No doubt the film policy of Jammu and Kashmir-2021 after its fanfare launch on August 5 by LG Shri Manoj Sinha in the presence of Bollywood […]