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The political institutions and economic structures in the Middle East haven't changed much since they were put in place. They worked wel...

1- Let a thousand heretics bloom : Liberal education is a sustained and controlled matter, where practicality is directly related to search...

I am not talking about human rights today. I am asking a burning question : Do some Lives are less worthy than others? Today, an American l...

I was watching the movie ' Full Metal Jacket ' yesterday. The movie sparked the issue about violence in my mind. Why did authorising...

I often blog about culture but partially global politics. I do care about injustice, but the global scale and systematic nature of it has le...

Today Muslim world is deeply divided along the lines of separation between passionate liberalism and firm conservatism. Most of the Muslims ...

I try to understand the phenomenon constituting of violence, power, truth and justice in the daily happenings. Blasphemy is must for progres...

1- What a country needs for development in a very long term ? Vigorous debate and absolute freedom of speech. And this makes America a gre...

Is brutality committed in the name of patriotism more justified than violence committed in the name of parallel ideologies, be it Maoism, Je...

1- A fourth of India turning into desert: ISRO study : No less than a fourth of India’s geographical area, or 81 million hectares, is underg...

A lot has been said, but not by me. I give weblinks of few articles in 'Vichaar Shoonya' because its just that their voices are not ...

Frederick Douglass had written over a century ago. “ Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of in...

NYTimes journalist, Anand Giridhardas once asked Mufti Shabbir Alam Sidiqi, an important Islamic cleric, whether disenfranchised Muslims wer...

I was talking to my flatmate yesterday. We had a small argument about intercaste marriage. He will not do intercaste marriage due to his fam...

“Do not call it Bollywood. This is a very wrong thing to call it. We are not trying to copy Hollywood. We are making films for an audience o...

Two News affected me in this 24 hour.Just want to capture the big news in summary and small news in descriptive way. Feel free to read and c...

Dalai Lama and Fidel Castro are two great personalities living in our times which have experienced cold war and communism rise and fall. The...