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A tiny window of opportunity in Syria

  • Often, reading about the two Great Wars of the last century and the staggering scale of casualties, one wonders how could the world have allowed human slaughter at such epic scale to go on for so long? The combined toll of the two world wars exceeded a horrific hundred million. Millions more died...
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Bold visit brings fresh ray of hope

  • Intelligent men have no enemies, said Chanakya, the author of Arthashastra, the bible of statecraft. Advising leaders against conflicts, Chanakya warns that avoidable confrontations could be a distraction from the greater objective of empire building. I wonder how the ancient Hindu sage would...
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Canada, Sikhs and apologies

  • The Canadians are a strange lot. Who in their right mind would offer apologies with folded hands for something that happened more than a century ago? Justin Trudeau, Canada’s young prime minister, has decided to tender a formal apology next month before Parliament for what is known as the...
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Do not let the idea of India die

  • As Dickens would put it, these are the best of times and worst of times for India....
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In Abraham’s footsteps

  • Nothing celebrates the oneness of humanity and submission and surrender to the will of God as Haj does. The millions of voices perpetually chanting in unison, Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik, La Shareek Laka Labbaik, Innal Hamdah, Wan Nematah, Laka wal Mulk, La Shareek Laka, reaffirming their faith and...
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Londoners show the way

  • Race is the ultimate reality, said Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century Conservative prime minister. Although the color of one’s skin still matters, Britain has come a long way since the time of its first Jewish prime minister. Nothing better encapsulates this change than the historic election of...
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The noose is tightening

  • The law is an ass, said English dramatist George Chapman in 1654. Little has changed since. Indeed, the more laws are enacted, the more asinine we seem to become. Cicero said law stands mute in the midst of arms. And it stood mute in the face of anguished protests by civil society and appeals by...
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Time to earn that Nobel, Mr. President!

  • Some of the loudest cheers over Barack Obama’s re-election originated in the Middle East. Although the Arabs and Muslims didn’t have much to celebrate during his first term, they still plumped and prayed for the candidate Obama perhaps a little more than the rest of the world hoping...
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