When the Jews supported Hitler
Two media-savvy Muslim clerics have covertly offered their support to Narendra Modi. Maulana Mehmood Madani represents a faction of the Sunni Jamiatul Ulema-i-Hind. Maulana Kalbe Sadiq speaks for a section…
Interviewing Hitler
Strange that I had just finished reading George Sylvester Vierick’s landmark 1923 interview with Adolf Hitler when Indian TV channels went viral over a fellow Indian journalist’s meeting with Narendra…
Defeating fascism
Pakistan’s politics remains a vicious circle degrading with each rotation. The 2014 horror movie was re-run this week. Fascist hordes descended once again upon D-Chowk in a paralysed Islamabad amidst…
Time to find out
HOW could 74.5 million Republican voters in the US have got it right, and the rest of the world got it wrong? Nothing in recent history can match Donald Trump’s…
Jabalia death march
IT will live in history: the Jabalia death march. As reported by Al Jazeera, the fleeing Palestinians were carrying white flags while going through checkpoints, but the Israeli bombardment continued.…
Mourning a friend
THE legacy media seems to have learnt no lesson from its debacle in the US presidential election, as its coverage based on its preconceived notions about the events in Amsterdam…
Money and man
IF there were a central bankers’ roll of honour, it would prominently feature Paul Volcker’s name, perhaps even at the very top. Volcker, who died in 2019 at the age…
Did she slip up with emergency?
JUNE 25 marked the anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s 21-month 1975-77 emergency. The 50-year-old event came up for censure in the Lok Sabha Speaker’s and president Draupadi Murmu’s address to the…
Russian roulette
A THUMPING majority for Vladimir Putin in his fifth bid for the Russian presidency was a foregone conclusion, even though its size surprised even seasoned analysts. It’s a 10 per…
Popularity and effectiveness
RECENTLY, in an academic session with students abroad, I was discussing human effectiveness and leadership. Subliminal disturbance about the events back home led me to dwell on correlating the popularity…
