Ebrahim Raisi won the presidential election by 17.8 million votes
If the Mossad had been asked to sketch the worst possible Iranian leader Israel could imagine, they would have come up with someone like Hassan Rouhani
Inept policies, religious pressure add to poverty, poor health and cross-border challenges in Iran
Rouhani’s election signals a desire within Iran for a person at the helm of Iran’s day-to-day conduct of foreign policy who has the diplomatic skills to engage with the rest of the world, especially the major powers.
'Some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime. The majority of the American people as well as other nations and p
It could be argued: if Ahmadinejad behaves like a Mossad agent, Avigdor Lieberman behaves like an agent of Iranian intelligence. I don't say so, God forbid. I really don't want to be sued for libel.
But he just brazenly side-stepped many questions, invited all and sundry to Iran and then added: "In Iran, when you invite a guest, you respect them. This is our tradition, required by our culture. And I know that American people have that culture, a
Lee Bollinger's speech, said the Iranian prez, "was an insult to information and the knowledge of the audience present," as he went on to repeat and rephrase what he called were his two questions as an academic: on holocaust and the nukes.
'Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the sounds of the shattering and fall of the ideology and thoughts of the lib
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.