The familiar plume of smoke no longer billows from one of the two chimneys at ArcelorMittal’s massive steelworks in Hamburg’s harbour. Soaring energy prices have forced operators to partially idle…
Consensus on matters ensuring security and welfare of the common man is rarely achieved by our parliament. Such unanimity is only displayed when their own self-interest is at stake, like…
By blocking creation of an independent, bipartisan January 6 commission, congressional Republicans have signaled they would rather approach next year’s mid-term elections unencumbered by potentially damning findings about the deadly…
Our children are angry and frightened, and they are speaking out. Young people’s voices are rising; they are loud and demanding to be heard, and it’s working. Not only are…
Let’s get this straight. All the mayhem and madness over ‘Padmavati’ roiling India is not really about the imagined romantic encounter between a Hindu queen and a Muslim emperor, as…
For those who grew up amid taveez scrolls being found in wheat canisters, visitations by shape-shifting spirits and relatives disappearing for 40-day vows of silence, magical realism is not that…
Dubai eye The writer is a Middle East based columnist. In Bertolt Brecht’s poem ‘Die Lösung’ (‘The Solution’), written after the 1953 uprising in East Germany, a government functionary hands…
A mere two months after clashes between black youth and police in Baltimore following the murder of Freddie Gray while in police custody, President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced…
I was in Lahore recently and Punjabis being what they are they call the gangsters "mammoons" of the system. In fact Lahore has a mammoon over a mammoon; a square…
“Patriotism”, said Samuel Johnson in 1775, “is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” Over the intervening years, this famous quote may have become a cliché, but has lost none of…
