This paper has no intention of pursuing the individual personalities of the real persons behind these two names. They are both global leaders hailing from very different political and cultural backgrounds. This essay’s real task […]

Time and again the rhetoric of war comes to the frontline conversations and debate in international relations. The North American, as well as the European power blocks, are in shock and dismay about what has […]

Semantics: The two words above indicate two areas of human activity where negative or deficient effects are generated. The meaning of the two words could be more impactful when opposites are proposed. Complacency < Alertness, […]

Occasional Paper 5 A Palestinian- American public intellectual of our time late Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003) in his magnum opus, Orientalism (Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. 1978) challenged the colonial legacy not just in terms […]

Occasional Paper 4 Inspired by the The Nāsadīya Sūkta (after the incipit ná ásat, or “not the non-existent”), also known as the Hymn of Creation, is the 129th hymn of the 10th Mandala of the RgVeda (10:129) In the beginning […]

They arrive in their serene glide to occupy the Banyan tree even though the entire district and many parts of Sri Lanka too are ‘locked down’. They are visitors with no entry visa, no immigration […]

God of wholesomeness as found in the Biblico-Christian tradition in the face of callousness of the pandemic Whose care to depend on (God’s care and Gota’s care) The diseased, the sick and the quarantined  Wuhan […]