AS DIVORCES by SMS in India increase, activists seem paralysed over political remedies in the run-up to next year’s election. Unilateral oral divorce – a provision of Muslim personal law – is being misused by judges (qazis) and scholars (ulemas)to appease men – while government looks on. Talaq allows men to sever the knot with the words ‘I divorce you’...
UN General Assembly Vote on Palestine: Turning the tables on Israel & US
It was a landmark vote on late Thursday (November 29) when the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly choose to stand by the Palestine people – in their struggle for sovereignty and self-determination. On that day, the UN General Assembly voted to make Palestine a non-member observer state, accepting in de-facto, its status as an independent...
Indian Ocean Region: Hedging against Chinese expansionism
Amid the euphoria of what will be an historic movement for the Palestine struggle for recognition by the UN, was a news item in the Times of India that grasped for attention. It was the news of a new troika building up around the Indian Ocean. It is indeed a first step towards a trilateral...
Mali: Calling for global action, now and beyond
Mali is another example of a separatist movement aided and abetted by an Islamist group – going wrong. Formed in October 2011, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) sought to represent the nationalistic aspirations for the Tuareg people in northern Mali. The Tuareg’s are a Berber people, traditionally nomadic and principal inhabitants...
China and its Territorial Disputes: An irritant in Asia’s front yard
China has a rather inimitable style of irritating its neighbours. They brush you by the side and then glance sideways as if nothing really happened. You stare back at them and they turn around to scowl. It seems to be a 21st century country stuck in an 18th or 19th century mentality –browbeating its neighbours....
South China Sea Crisis: Risking “Asia’s Palestine”
Amid growing tension between China and other countries in the region over territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the outgoing ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan warned that the dispute would turn the region into “Asia’s Palestine”. Pitsuwan said this in an interview with Financial Times published on November 27, 2012. Coming as it is from...
Mumbai 26/11: Among the dead, we feast!
Terrorist attacks threaten to polarise our already fragmented society. But more dangerously the attitude of the powers that be succeeds in dispiriting us as a nation.
Aam Aadmi Party: A New Leaf in Indian Democracy
On November 24, a new leaf was added to India’s political system. The creation of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal and his associates must be seen as a landmark in Indian history. In the coming days as people debate about this new creation – its ethics and aspirations – there...
Egypt: Another tryst with turmoil
Egypt is in the throes of yet another political crisis; one that threatens to further polarise an already fragmented nation as it painstaking steers itself through the protracted process of constitutional reforms. By an executive decree issued on November 22, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi ruled that his decisions since assuming office will not be subject...
Power Play in Congo: When will the guns fall silent?
As the world focused its attention on bringing peace to the Gaza strip, a rebel group is threatening to overrun Congo in a conflict that has already displaced about 500,000 people since it began in April 2012. On Tuesday (November 20) the rebel M23 fighters captured the strategic city of Goma in Congo’s mineral rich...
Ajmal Kasab: Wish his death could bring us Peace!
Death brings peace; but to the person who dies; not for those left behind, for they shall live in the continuing grief of having lost their loved ones. The execution of Ajmal Kasab the lone terrorist caught in November 2008 will definitely bring a sense of closure for India as a nation. But for the...
Middle East: Peace in the shadow of War
In a post-cold war world, the crisis in the Middle-East (West Asia from this part of the world) is the one issue potent enough to polarize opinion across in the world and threaten world peace. Here territorial conflict most often, if not always gets driven to religious interpretation. A breeding ground for fundamentalist thought and...
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