Joseph Lelyveld, a former executive editor of the New York Times, has written a biography of Gandhi titled Great Soul. Some comments in this book have created a storm of protest in India. It has been banned by the State of Gujarat, the state where Gandhi hailed from and where he founded his ashram. The…
Editor’s Note – In our early articles about Afghanistan, we complained about the lack of knowledge about Afghanistan and today’s Pakistan in the American Media. Then we realized it is not enough to complain. The Pushtun history is deeply intertwined with Indian history. So in November 2010 we began to write about the Indo-Afghan Continuum. After…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
It is a strange time in the Middle East. Leaders that lasted for decades are being toppled in days. These are leaderless revolts against corrupt leaders. No one knows what regimes take over in these leaderless lands. We see contradictions everywhere.How clear was the picture just a couple of months ago? The Sunni Arab coalition…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
Bahrain, a relatively tiny island country of 1.3 million people exploded this week. By almost every quantitative indicator, the protests in Bahrain should be considered as minuscule relative to the problems in Egypt. The entire Middle East is in an uproar from Algeria to Libya to Yemen. These are larger countries that have major stakes…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…
Friday, February 11 was a momentous day in Egypt, in the Middle East and possibly for the world. How momentous and in what way is by no means clear. In this article, we seek to understand what happened on Friday and what it might mean for the near term and beyond. Naturally, we come up…
Editor’s Note: In this series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with our comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. We are very happy with the tremendous response from readers to…