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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicSeparatism

Topic: Separatism

Modi govt has lost farm laws battle, now raising Sikh separatist bogey will be a grave error

This crisis requires political sophistication & governance skills, Modi-Shah BJP has neither. It would be nuts to reopen an issue in Punjab that was closed and buried by 1993.

The separatist and darling of Kashmir who is now Modi’s ‘younger brother’

Sajad Lone was once a staunch separatist opposed to Indian presence in Kashmir, he is now the BJP’s face in the Valley.

Global Pulse: Xi is creating an alternative to the West, Trump’s hollowed-out bureaucracy 

Xi Jinping’s goal is not only to reform China, but create a global alternative to the West.

Global Pulse: What unites the United States, Spain mulls ‘nuclear option’ against Catalonia

The one thing that unites Americans on the Left and the Right is, unfortunately, disgruntlement.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

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.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

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.