The Nepal parties are in the process of forming an interim government and are engaged in active parleys. CPN (Maoists) through their newly gained political status of being the single largest party, though initially insisted for both the key posts of the premiership and the president, were later reconciled to giving up the claim for […]
Latin American Neo-Populists: Or how I learned that Populism is nothing but Rhetorical Poppycock
Latin America has tragically been under the spell of populist governments through out its tumultuous history. There seems to always be an important neglected sector of the population that will always fall for the belief that someone will hold a messianic solution to their problems. Not that they are completely to be blamed because many […]
Israel: One Wall Down, a New Reality in the Middle East
By Gilad Lotan Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians poured into the Egyptian side of Rafah as the wall on the Egypt-Gaza border was brought down by Hamas over a week ago. Egyptian attempts to revert the situation to its previous state where they hold little or no responsibilities, have failed. Many bloggers have been writing […]
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan – The Non Violent Giant
n July 1988, one sunny evening I went over to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi during visiting hours to visit a friend’s father who was admitted there. It was the visiting hours and normally there was no security; but on this particular occasion, there were some policemen on duty guiding the […]
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