Beyond the Veil of Stereotypes: Women’s Education and Achievement in Iran
NEW DELHI 15 MARCH 2026: For decades, Western media narratives have often portrayed the condition of women in Iran in stark and monochromatic terms—defined almost entirely by images of compulsory veiling, protests over dress codes, and restrictions on social freedoms. Following the reported assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during the recent escalation between […]
A Fortnight That Shook the Architecture of American Power in West Asia
New Delhi 14 March 2026 : On the fourteenth day of the US–Israel war against Iran, the conflict has already begun to reshape strategic assumptions that governed West Asia for decades. What was initially projected as a swift demonstration of American military supremacy has evolved into a confrontation whose strategic consequences are still unfolding. Among […]
Martyrdom’s Echo: Iran’s Stand Against the New Crusade
America and Israel’s war on Iran revives a 1,346-year-old schism, pitting a US-Saudi-Israeli alliance against Tehran’s Shia defiance, with Gulf states complicit in the fray. Karbala’s Unhealed Scar In 680 AD, Imam Hussain’s martyrdom at Karbala—slain with his family by Umayyad forces—birthed Shia Islam’s ethos of noble sacrifice, a theology impervious to conquest. Today’s strikes […]
The Historian of Consciousness: K.N. Panikkar and the Architecture of Modern India
The landscape of Indian historiography lost one of its most luminous and courageous architects on 9 March , 2026. Professor K.N. Panikkar, who passed away in Thiruvananthapuram at the age of 89, was far more than a chronicler of the past; he was a philosopher of culture and a tireless sentinel of secular ethics. At […]
The Twilight of Hegemony: How the U.S.-Israeli ‘Divide and Rule’ Strategy Failed in West Asia
For decades, the geopolitical architecture of West Asia was built upon a singular, foundational pillar: the engineered estrangement of its inhabitants. By leveraging historical theological differences and fostering a perpetual state of insecurity, the United States, in tandem with Israel, maintained a “Divide and Rule” policy designed to ensure regional powers remained too fractured to […]
Women in Sahir’s Poetry” ,“Log Aurat Ko Faqat Jism Samajh Lete Hain…”Sahir Ludhianvi’s Poetic Protest for Women’s Dignity
“Log aurat ko faqat jism samajh lete hain,Rooh bhi hoti hai us mein ye kahaan sochte hain.”(People see a woman merely as a body;They seldom pause to think that she has a soul.) Every year on 8 March, the world commemorates International Women’s Day, a moment to reflect upon women’s struggles and achievements. Coincidentally, this […]
The Cost of Silence: India’s Civilisational Abandonment of Iran
The events of February 28, 2026, will likely be recorded as a watershed moment in Indian diplomacy—not for what was said, but for what was not. As news broke of a joint United States–Israel strike in Tehran resulting in the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and the tragic deaths of civilians, including more […]
Jab faagun rang jhamakte hon tab dekh bahaaren Holi ki
Holi cannot be imagined without invoking Nazeer Akbarabadi, the 18th-century poet whose verses capture its unbridled joy. For those who have immersed themselves in the colours of Braj’s Holi, its essence is visceral; outsiders, glimpsing it only through screens, remain forever distant from its spirit. Braj’s Timeless Revelry Over recent decades, Braj has transformed amid […]
At the World’s Energy Chokepoint: The Strategic Shock of Hormuz
The confrontation between the United States, Israel, and Iran has pushed one of the most vital arteries of global commerce to the brink of paralysis. In the aftermath of the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the retaliatory escalation that followed, the strategic waters of the Strait of Hormuz have effectively become a […]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei Stood Firm Against US-Israel’s Onslaught
“Girte hain shahsawar hi maidan-e-jung mein, woh tifl kya gire jo ghutno ke bal chale”(Only the experienced horseman falls in the battleground; how will the child fall who crawls on his knees) The Ideologue of Resistance: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (1939–2026) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Second Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the […]
