Brazil’s new reality
“I have nothing to do with your son’s eye. Take a plane and go. You won’t go through here.” This is what a supporter of Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro…
Unity in diversity
Every four years, the football world cup brings the world together. The euphoric bond transcends religious, ideological, political and time barriers. Messi, Mbappe, Neymar, Benzema and Mohammed Salah, artists in…
Lula’s challenges
Jair Bolsonaro, a typical populist leader, was not expected to cool down so quickly after his defeat in the second round of the Brazilian presidential elections. It was being anticipated…
Lula returns?
Brazilian voters will have to return to the polls for a presidential runoff as none of the leading candidates managed to muster the required numbers in the first round. On…
SLF – a celebration of Mohenjodaro
It has been exactly 100 years since the world came to know about the splendor of Mohenjodaro. Not that the Indus Valley civilization was not known to the world; it…
Biden’s forever war
On Saturday, US President Joe Biden ended his week-long tour of Europe to mobilize Nato for conflict with Russia with a belligerent rant in Warsaw, Poland. Media coverage of Biden’s…
Trading lives for guns
Mass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific massacre of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, firearm manufacturers’ stock prices predictably rose. Gun…
Hypothetical harms
There is a common thread between the recent mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde, Texas, and Laguna Beach, California, the January 6 insurrection, everyday police lethality, and the overturning of Roe…
A shift to the left
The sun is rising on a new day for Colombians, especially for those who Vice President-elect Francia Marquez calls the ‘nobodies’: women, Indigenous communities, Afro-Colombians, LGBTQ+, working class, disabled people…
The brink of disaster
Women’s rights – in reality, these are a nuisance to many US conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse…
