Trump never met a dictator he didn’t praise.
Yet his fans dare to accuse Biden of appeasement. The only thing more cringe-inducing than hearing Trump supporters accuse PresidentRead More
The Kremlin accuses the US of stoking ‘hysteria’ over Ukraine, as the UN Security Council meets.
The threat from Russia remains “dangerous but ambiguous,” and it is not certain that an attack will take place, theRead More
Why Was Mahatma Gandhi Killed?
This January 30, let us remind ourselves of the motive behind the Mahatma’s assassination. An ideological argument was sought toRead More
Sport, politics and Covid collide at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Games will open on Friday in a country that hopes sport will be the talking point. But political twistsRead More
Critical Outsider 📰 30-01-2022
Today’s newsletter covers Dire Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan 🇦🇫, Choices faced by India 🇮🇳 vis-a-vis #Hindutva & #Gandhi’s Secularism, PressRead More
India’s fate hangs on whether we pick exclusionary Hindutva or Gandhi’s pluralism: Guha
Gandhi emphatically rejected the suggestion that the majority community had the right to dominate politics and governance in the country.Read More
The new wave of Holocaust revisionism
Poland’s efforts to reframe history reflect a trend proliferating in other European countries to obfuscate the history of the Holocaust.Read More
The metaverse is dystopian – but to big tech it’s a business opportunity.
Facebook’s plans to build a $10bn virtual reality world were ridiculed yet the rest of Silicon Valley has serious FomoRead More
The Coronavirus will surprise us again.
The variant after Omicron could look very different from any yet. To understand how the coronavirus keeps evolving into surprising new variantsRead More
Long Covid study finds abnormality in lungs that could explain breathlessness.
Findings raise the possibility that Covid may cause microscopic damage not detected by normal tests. Abnormalities have been identified inRead More