An open letter to Ban Ki Moon
Mr Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General, The United Nations. January 16, 2013. Your Excellency, I am not Hazara – my gene pool is not affiliated with the descendants of the great Mongol Genghis Khan, who...
View ArticleOpening old wounds and Quader Mollah’s execution: What did Bangladesh...
About a week ago I was in New York on holiday and at some point got into a cab with a very chatty Bengali cab driver. His first question to me obviously, as all desi cab drivers in NY must ask, was...
View ArticleJust because they are old, they don’t have a right to live?
“Five more minutes” I said to myself, while browsing my Facebook wall and going through the list of things-to-do in my head. It has become so hard to manage ones time these days. After snubbing my kids...
View Article“We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted...
Was Obama mincing words when he refused to pin the ‘Islamist’ tag on to terrorism? His unequivocal statement that the war on terror was against people perverting Islam drew him a lot of flak from a...
View ArticleIs World War III round the corner?
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” – Albert Einstein The world is far from complex. While presenting it as such certainly...
View ArticleAfter three Indo-Pak wars, are LoC skirmishes preparing ground for another?
The Line of Control (LoC) which divides Pakistan and Indian-occupied Kashmir has been the primary source of troublesome relations between the two countries. Not being an international border, LoC is a...
View ArticleWill Benjamin Netanyahu’s drama over Iran ever end?
Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is a drama queen like no other. His song and dance reminds one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s histrionics or Muammar Qaddafi’s menopausal approach to digress into the mundane –...
View ArticleI love the UN, but it is failing
I have worked for the United Nations for most of the last three decades. I was a human rights officer in Haiti in the 1990s and served in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide. I helped...
View ArticlePhilippine’s Rodrigo Duterte: An effective leader or a despotic one?
Philippine’s President Rodrigo Duterte has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. First, he has been accused of large scale human rights violation, where tens and thousands of people have lost...
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