The world's Catholics need a Pope who will further bring the papacy in line with the moral force and social commitment  exemplified  in Christ's ministry, further deepening the late Pope's commitment to the wretched of the earth.

The historical-cultural point is unmistakable: it is the women who always spoil the broth, both within the kitchen and on the battlefield.

The power of greatness is often caricatured by ill-educated well-wishers who take into their own bouncer hands the gumption to enlarge the colossus into a demi-god.

The majoritarian rulers of the day swallowed the necessity that Muslim participation was required in the delegations to be sent to argue the Indian case.

As of now, India's armed forces swear allegiance to the constitution, not to any person or political authority.

This culture of neo-bigotry is not a tangential phenomenon but one that draws breath from the predilections that afflict very high places.

Why is it that to this minute there is no statement from the Indian prime minister contradicting the litany of perverse Trump talk on Kashmir?

A young woman who lost her husband and a chief minister of a bruised union territory have shown why the worst folly that the state and society could commit now is to engage in practices and policies that continue to distrust Kashmiris.

Distressingly, voices have come forth after the Pahalgam carnage inimical to the safety of Muslims in some states.

The Muneer-led deep state in Pakistan had better realise once and for all that even the most extreme Kashmiri Muslims will never throw their lot with Pakistan.

Hashmi was a dreamy-eyed modern-day progressive Hamlet, who, like his predecessor, remained committed to “set right” our own rotten times.

What disorients and disarms the bully most is laughter.

Meanwhile, such things as a "bloodbath" or a "carnage" happen, when it does in the stock market, not in the killing fields of Palestine; and "sentiment" belongs to tariffs and investments, not to homo sapiens.

So, what may be done to obviate this most irrational and unjust prospect?

The monarchs who were once challenged and defeated in favour of representative and constitutional verities return through the very same ballot that was meant to eradicate their unauthorised gumption.

Would it have been possible for the Hindutva government to plead inability to either count or be accountable for those that died seemingly in droves had they been VIPs and VVIPs?

A world prostrate in jaw-dropping wonder, speculates: can this be true? Can he, will he do it? Will no one stand in his way?

Is it not strange that the right-wing is loudly willing to drag the nation's attention to Article 44, recommending that eventually a Uniform Civil Code be attempted for all Indian citizens, but unaccountably bypass Articles 38 and 39?

'Tell me not of religion,/ O well-meaning friend of mine;/ God and religion are as apart/ As Milkmaid from brine.'

In the recent elections held to the assembly of the neutered territory, ruling expectations were dashed comprehensively.