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Recent public discourses and writings in India are dominated by the use of two words: “Constitution” and “religion.” Those who swear by the Constitution declare it a secular document and emphasise its provisions relating to freedom to profess, practice, and propagate one’s religion and the State’s duty not to discriminate on grounds of religion.
Iran is on the boil. Women are up in arms and the uprising is being crushed by the Iranian government, making global headlines that once again point to the brutality brought about by a mix of fundamentalist ideology and political power. But the Iran story is slightly different from the standard tale of clerics seeking subjugation to their religious demands. It was groups of
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Climate Change Report in February 2022. It contained several alarming findings. The IPCC Report stated that CO2 emissions in 2019 were higher than at any time over the last 2 million years. The sea levels have risen faster in the 1900s than in any other century prior to that. Changes due to global warming such
The Government of India’s decision to export $249 million worth of weapons, including its lethal multi-barrel rocket launcher, Pinaka, to Armenia, which is engaged in a fratricidal conflict with neighbouring Azerbaijan, suggests not just the shifting sands of the global power balance, but also the way New Delhi is readjusting its foreign policy to factor regional conflicts
During the second fortnight of September, since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in the custody of Iran’s ‘morality police’ over her “inappropriate hijab”, protests over her death have spread across 46 Iranian cities, towns and villages. Many people have been killed in the protests amid clashes with security forces. Crowds in the capital city of Tehran shouted