Opinion
Moon Mission and a Reality Check Back on Earth
JAWED NAQWI
IT wasn’t entirely unexpected that zealous TV channels gave indiscriminate time and screen space to an awkwardly beaming Prime Minister Modi, rather than...
Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner Group Boss Joins Long List of Those Who Challenged Vladimir Putin and Paid the Price
Stefan Wolff
TWO months after challenging Vladimir Putin’s leadership in an apparent but abortive “mutiny”, Yevgeny Prigozhin – the former owner of the mercenary private...
Saudi-Iran Ties on Mend
Asad Mirza
NEW DELHI - Iran and Saudi Arabia have started a new chapter of cautious and incremental diplomatic exchanges to revive the strained bilateral...
A Historic Discomfort: RSS & Ambedkar’s Constitution
Dr Abhay Kumar
WHEN the country was celebrating its 77th Independence Day, a leading ideologue of the ruling establishment wrote an opinion piece in a...
Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
John Pilger
IN the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying...