Iran's nuclear gambitATUL ANEJAPresident Ahmadinejad says he has new ideas to break the nuclear deadlock even as Iran restarts its uranium conversion facility at Esfahan despite int
A RIGHT TURNATUL ANEJAMahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory in the presidential election reflects a general drift to the right among large sections of the country's youth
A vote for womenATUL ANEJAIn a historic decision, Kuwait amends its election law in favour of granting full political rights to women, which include the right to vote and stand
On the road to chaosATUL ANEJAA full-fledged civil war, with the Shias and the Kurds pitted against the Sunnis, seems to be a possibility in Iraq as violence engulfs the country fo
A new phase in IraqATUL ANEJAIraq gets a Shia Prime Minister and a Kurd President more than nine weeks after the elections, but this is unlikely to bring lasting peace unless the
Lebanon's worriesATUL ANEJASyria begins a phased pull-out from Lebanon amid fears that the power vacuum this will create and the U.S. activism in the country may lead to another
Iraq and the crises aheadATUL ANEJA in ManamaPolitical volatility threatens to engulf Iraq as the outcome of the elections sharpens the religious and ethnic divisions in the war-ravaged country.
The Shia factorATUL ANEJAWORSHIPPERS from Iran can often be seen queuing up outside the golden-domed Imam Ali shrine at Najaf in Iraq. Among them Iranian women, in their finel
Vote under occupationATUL ANEJA in ManamaThe question of legitimacy of the January 30 elections in Iraq comes under sharp focus even as the Bush administration claims "victory" for democracy
Arm-twisting IranATUL ANEJAAs a response to the growing threats of attack from the United States, Iran builds strategic partnerships with its neighbours in the east, including I
A decisive mandateATUL ANEJA in ManamaBy electing the moderate Mahmoud Abbas their new President, Palestinians appear to have endorsed the view that their struggle for a homeland needs a n
A flawed election processATUL ANEJAThe January 30 elections in Iraq to form a transition government and elect representatives who would draft the country's new Constitution are threaten
Are Hindi films problematising history? After Padmaavat, the Hindu historical tasted blood and sharpened its fangs, but the recent Samrat Prithviraj is a weak offspring of the genre, neither
SlideshowPostcards from Khasi hillsImages that mix politics, history and discomfort to document how the Khasi people made Christianity, a “foreign faith”, their own.
