Despite all the hoopla of their growing numbers, US Muslims, in effect, remain a non-entity...Read More

Majoritarian tyranny prevails where tribalism is dominant. And this can occur anywhere, underlying the necessity to not take the eye off the ball.  This was the core takeaway when I was asked by Professor Akbar Ahmed to...

Chloé Zhao, Director of film Nomadland Image Credit: Vegafi / Wikimedia Commons The other day, I saw a revealing movie-cum-documentary on a less-spotlighted facet of American life, called “Nomadland,” which won the best picture at the...

One summer day in August 1978, not knowing how to squander a Sunday in Washington, I drove to Muhammad Ali’s mountain hideout at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, where he was training for his bout against Larry Spinks...

Closed doors of coronavirus have inadvertently opened doors to random TV viewing. One such recent program was the telecast of a stage play, “Drawing the Line,” shown at London’s Hampstead Theatre. It focused on 1947 demarcation of...

Education is often seen as a be-all panacea.   50 years ago, David Halberstam in his book, “The Best and the Brightest,” blamed the “bright bulbs” in the White House for the Vietnam debacle, by pushing...

With man-made sanctions galore against Venezuela, Iran, and other “errant” nations, comes now the sobering reminder of the sanctions imposed by Mother Nature, blind to geographical boundaries, threatening even the safety of sailors on the aircraft...

Image shows a sculpture of Harriet Tubman by Jane DeDecker, photograph by Dwight Burdette/Wikimedia Some were swiftly sanguine that the Obama presidency may mark a post-racial era.  2019 punctures that balloon of illusion.  Some of the...

Fourteen centuries ago, Hazrat Ali had cautioned on the perils of pandering to the privileged few.  The contention of the great sage – widely recognized as the fountainhead of Sufism – was that whatever you do...

The other day, a noted Army general recalled a conversation with a senior retired colleague in the Punjab, during which a piece of key advice was proffered: never retire.  It is a telling commentary on society. Those...