How Colonialism 1st Shaped India’s Solidarity & Now Indifference To Palestine

Bitter fruits of colonialism—India's vivisection and Palestinian dispossession—informed Indian policies towards Palestinians until the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rose to power in 2014

Bitter fruits of British colonialism—India's division in 1947 and expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland for Israel's creation a year later—informed Indian policies towards Palestine until the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rose to power in 2014

How Turkey’s Repressive Secularism Helped Rise Of Erdogan

Turkey elections may head for run-off as Erdogan fails to get 50% votes

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the secular Turkish republic, banned Sufi orders, put mosques under government control, mandated officials to wear European-style brimmed hats, and banned Arabic as part of sweeping measures to impose secularism on Turks

Iraqi Ayatollah: Unlike Iran’s, Breath Of Fresh Air For West

The Iranian revolution and the captivity of 52 Americans crystalized dormant Islamophobia with ubiquitous Khomeini at its center decades before the US invasion of Iraq put another Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani under the global spotlight for entirely different reasons as someone unlike the Iranian revolutionary leader

How West Spawned Conflict In The Middle East For Favourable Geopolitical Order

An injured Palestinian kid after Israeli airstrikes at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza on October 9, 2023.

Britain and France secretly hammered out the Sykes-Picot accord in 1916 to arbitrarily redraw borders by marking straight lines with a rude chinagraph pencil and a ruler on the Middle East's map as their shared spoils of the First World War without letting the region's people have a say in it