Opinions
‘Vaccine apartheid’: how white privilege is woven into the fabric of globalisation
By Chandran Nair
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The roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines, with poor countries far behind, has exposed the moral bankruptcy and structural privilege of W...
Biden’s Afghanistan plan puts al Qaeda in heart of Washington
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has sent a letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani outlining ways forward for the Afghan pe...
Afghanistan: Status of Doha Agreement and the Way Forward
By Ambassador Amar Sinha
To mark one year of the Doha Agreement between the US and the Taliban, signed on 29 February 2020 in Doha, the Vivekananda International Foundation in collaboration with a prominent Kabul based think tank, Af...
Tragedy of Losing Persian in the Sub-continent
By Rafia Zakaria
IN or around the year 1210 a poet was born in the Persian city of Shiraz. Not unlike now, those years were a moment of transformation in the Muslim world. Mongol expansion had led to the fall of many cities and dynas...