India is too close to Israel for Iran’s trust, yet still blindsided. It risks losing assets like Chabahar port and export markets, while key partners don’t factor in its concerns.
The Israel-Palestine question appeared to be the one area where he apparently refused to soften his views. And that refusal is now colliding with the realities of governing.
India’s states have vastly different electricity needs. Tamil Nadu has high wind penetration and Rajasthan has abundant solar irradiance. A one-size-fits-all procurement template cannot work.
Madras High Court has ordered strict compliance with Tamil Nadu's abolition of the 'orderly system'. In ending this colonial-era practice, southern states are torchbearers of social reform.
That Badshah is misogynistic is not a particularly illuminating observation. The misogyny is a creative condition of his music, as fundamental to it as the buzzy beat drop.
Replacing the dollar necessitates not only a rival currency but also an equally robust financial market, trusted institutions, and an ecosystem of banks, investors & payment infrastructure.
Women officers in the forces routinely manage the physiological realities of menstruation. Making menstrual leave mandatory would be two steps backwards for them.
Iran’s strikes on data centres in the UAE and Bahrain brings tech policy into focus. The war threatens the web of global connectivity that flows through these hubs.
West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
No one understands and practices the art of propaganda better than Jihadi terrorists. Moderate Muslims, through media such as Al Jazeera, BBC and others create the narrative of Muslims being oppressed. Social media is then employed to amplify the narrative. Eventually the fake news just blows up and is assumed to be the truth.
The Islamic fundamentalists understand this better than anyone else. Hence, they engage the moderate Muslims like Mehdi Hassan to create a false narrative and then amplify it a billion times portraying Muslims as innocent victims of Jewish/Christian/Hindu/Buddhist violence.
The business of Jihad in Islam thrives on this very narrative peddling machinery. It is an ultra sophisticated operation mastered over the last few decades by Islamic fanatics.
Islamists, with assistance from their Leftist friends, have mastered the art and science of propaganda. Even Goebbels would be blown over if he saw the heights achieved by Islamists in this domain.
Everything is Hamas, huh? Israeli propaganda is wearing thin. You hire ISIS fighters to kill, your soldiers kill men women and babies, your bombs blow up schools. But let’s blame Hamas again. Because why not?
No one understands and practices the art of propaganda better than Jihadi terrorists. Moderate Muslims, through media such as Al Jazeera, BBC and others create the narrative of Muslims being oppressed. Social media is then employed to amplify the narrative. Eventually the fake news just blows up and is assumed to be the truth.
The Islamic fundamentalists understand this better than anyone else. Hence, they engage the moderate Muslims like Mehdi Hassan to create a false narrative and then amplify it a billion times portraying Muslims as innocent victims of Jewish/Christian/Hindu/Buddhist violence.
The business of Jihad in Islam thrives on this very narrative peddling machinery. It is an ultra sophisticated operation mastered over the last few decades by Islamic fanatics.
Islamists, with assistance from their Leftist friends, have mastered the art and science of propaganda. Even Goebbels would be blown over if he saw the heights achieved by Islamists in this domain.
Everything is Hamas, huh? Israeli propaganda is wearing thin. You hire ISIS fighters to kill, your soldiers kill men women and babies, your bombs blow up schools. But let’s blame Hamas again. Because why not?