‘Ghabrana Chor Doh’ (Video)
From ‘Ghabrana Nahi’ (Don’t be afraid) to ‘Ghabrana Chor Doh’ (Doff fear) is the battlecry of Imran Khan’s telegraphic travelogue of ‘Project Democracy’ in Pakistan. According to several independent observers
A Theory of Why We’re All Going Nuts Online
Alan Jacobs in The New Atlantis: On January 6, 2021, Samuel Camargo posted a video on Instagram showing him struggling to break through a police barrier to get into the U.S.
Pakistan Victim of U.S. Meddling to Contain China’s Rise
“Yes, I feel the change has been abetted by USA, but even they must be surprised how easily they did it”, a highly placed source in Islamabad tells DesPardes. He
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Neuroscience Gets in the Way of Appreciating Art
Describing ourselves in the language of neurobiology has got to be one of the stranger trends in our medical age. I’m depressed because my serotonin levels are low. I cried
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Amartya Sen on Identity, Decolonization and How to Change the World
Amartya Sen recently spoke from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the New Statesman’s ideas editor, Gavin Jacobson. Gavin Jacobson in The New Statesman: The history of economics owes many of its
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Why The Past 10 Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic: The story of Babel is the best metaphor I have found for what happened to America in the 2010s, and for the fractured country we
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Julian Assange Interviews Imran Khan (Video)
“Just watch this, and you will know why what happened. History almost repeating itself,” an independent British observer/analyst of South Asian descent, tells DesPardes: ALSO READ:Snowden & Imran Khan –
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India’s Inadvertent Missile Launch Underscores the Risk of Accidental Nuclear Warfare
Zia Mian and M. V. Ramana in Scientific American: Last month, while most of the world focused on the war in Ukraine and worried that a beleaguered Russian leadership might
Finland and Sweden Inch Toward NATO
“The problem isn’t that NATO enlargement went too far, the problem is that NATO enlargement didn’t go far enough“ Europe’s security architecture could be in for a monumental shift as
A Lake in Florida Is Suing to Protect Itself
Lake Mary Jane, in central Florida, could be harmed by development. A first-of-its-kind lawsuit asks whether nature should have legal rights. In the center of Florida, about a half-hour drive
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Bangladesh Has Become a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
By Claudia Sadoff in IPS: A decade ago, not even one in four rural women (in Bangladesh) could be said to be “empowered” across five key metrics, a figure that
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UAE Requires $671bln Investments to Achieve Carbon Neutrality
The UAE will require 2.5 trillion dirhams ($671.1 billion) in investments to transition to carbon neutrality (net zero), according to a report by Standard Chartered. While private investors can help
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