THE Protection against Harassment of Women in the Workplace Act was enacted more than 10 years ago. Since then, as cases have gone before harassment committees and ombudspersons, parties have struggled to determine the scope of incidents covered by the law…
IVY Bua the inveterate Pentecostal proselytiser was in her 80s when she found that her driver was on leave. Her lifelong mission to spread the Lord’s word had given her the gift of provisioning for reliable backups. A large…
Myanmar: More than 125,000 school teachers in Myanmar have been suspended by the military authorities for joining a civil disobedience movement to oppose the military coup in February, an official of the Myanmar Teachers‘ Federation said. The suspensions have come days before the start of a new school year, which some teachers and parents are…
Before the independence of this country we would see politicians rushing forward to the assistance of people in distress. When there was a food shortage in the fifties, young leader at the time, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, led the ‘bhuka’…
As SOS calls and sobering visuals of the plight of COVID-19 patients and their caregivers inundate social media platforms and messaging apps, spending time on them is equivalent to flitting between heart-wrenching tales of hardship and brief flashes of…
Americans exercised their democratic right and elected Donald Trump as president in 2016. Four years later, they exercised the same right again and corrected what had turned out to be a disastrous mistake. In the interim, they suffered for…
Santosh Yadav was in a crowded bus speeding towards Kanker, on his way to meet journalist Kamal Shukla, when I had called him in late September 2020. Only a few days ago, Shukla was thrashed by a mob in…
THE initiation of an intra-Afghan dialogue earlier this month represents a moment of hope and opportunity for a negotiated end to the long and bloody war in Afghanistan. After a protracted delay, direct talks between Kabul and the Taliban, supposed to…
IN comparing Western societies with Myanmar, North Korea or most Central Asian ones, one is struck by the contrasts. Western societies are vibrant and creative. Their states give citizens the freedom to explore, make mistakes, even fail, learn and…
U.S. President Donald Trump signs the visitors’ book as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and First Lady Melania Trump looks on, at Sabarmati Ashram, in Ahmedabad. | Photo Credit: PTI India needs a pro-Constitution, pro-facts, pro-inclusivity Gandhi Project analogous to…