Class struggle in Bolivia While the world is moving towards an open trade paradigm driven by the grand concept of liberalization, privatization and globalization, some nations in South America are emerging rebels. A battle between the market and the...

The industrial complex at Kaesong is jointly operated by both Koreas One of the most emotionally affected battlefields on the planet is the Korean peninsula. Divided into two nations by ‘outsiders’ along a geographical 38th parallel, as if...

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (first from left) with his collegaues. PM Manmohan singh (third from left) is also in picture Exploiting children is a crime in India and one of the country’s top ministers has been accused of using child slaves in his...

A friendly breeze from Tripoli has begun to flow across the continental shores of the Mediterranean for some years now, especially post 9/11. Starting with the visit of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair to Libya in 2004, relations...

Awaiting an independence day The battle between autonomy and complete independence has reached its finishing stages close to the shores of the Adriatic. The autonomy lobby includes Serbia backed by the Russia while the independence lobby is filled...

A bloody rush of fear gushes the body when we hear of names like Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the LTTE, Hizbul-Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad and many more. For a second, we enter a terrorized world where human are held captives, they are kidnapped,...

The average Somali is struggling hard to receive a human treatment in the African Horn. Life in this part of the world has not been easy over the last decade. War, internal rebellion and economic breakdowns have left many thousands displaced. Children...

The civil war in the African horn seems to be having no end in sight. When, international effort led by Ethiopian forces drove away Islamic militants out of the capital, Mogadishu in early 2007, some positive hope had developed. However the last few...

Donkeys in Gaza city have become more valuable than cars today. The weekly donkeys markets have begun to see some very lively trading activity. Streets are being emptied of cars, some even going to the extent of selling their four-wheelers to buy the...

That rainy morning, I was waiting at the bus stop to board a bus. Continuous showers had made roads rather muddy and untidy. Passing cars drove through the stagnant waters, splashing them on the people standing near by. Just when my bus was about to...