Category: So Asia

Maldives Was a Bollywood Bolthole During India’s Second Wave. Now Wealthy Indians are Shut Out.

CNN — Maldives has banned tourists from South Asia, cutting off an escape route for…

London’s Leftist Mayor Sadiq Khan Wins Second Term

Labor Party’s Sadiq Khan has won second term as London mayor after beating Conservative (Tory)…

COVID-19 Threatens Mt. Everest Climbing Comeback Plans

More than 30 sick climbers have been evacuated from Mount Everest base camp. After Nepal…

Covid in India: Covering Up Crematorium, Banning Pictures of Pyres, Long Queues of Bodies

TEAM CLARION: In an apparent response to media coverage of spiraling Covid deaths and worldwide…

Pandemic in India: Has Kashmiri Girl Nafeesa’s Wish Been Fulfilled?

In the summer of 2020, an Indian journalist went to cover ‘normalcy’ in occupied Kashmir…

Urdu is Ordu, Turkey’s ‘City of Oxygen’ (Video)

Ordu or Altınordu is a port city (the city of oxygen) on the Black Sea…

Covid-19 Pandemic in So. Asia: ‘Peace Mongers’ Call for Cooperation, Empathy

Dozens of South Asians came together for an online meet on Sunday and expressed grief,…

Oral Pill Treatment for Corona Likely to be Approved in India

American Pharma major Merck has developed a drug called Molnupiravi which works to completely eliminate…

HARD TALK on Protests in Pakistan on France Cartoons on Prophet

Adil Najam, a Pakistani academic and intellectual who serves as the inaugural dean of the…

Difference Between Pleasure and Happiness (Video)

The science behind pleasure and happiness is sourced in the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and…

India, Israel and UAE Join Hands to Tap Their Potentials. An Interesting Development Gone Unnoticed.

DR. ZAKIR HUSAIN: If the trilateral economic association between Israel, India and the UAE goes…

Amartya Sen, Gulzar on Rabindranath Tagore (Video)

AMARTYA SEN at the Nobel website: Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age…