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Historically, Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, held the notoriety of being amongst the most “divided” communities in the whole of Ireland. The “divide” was as much about national identity, political power and constitutional status, as it was about religion. Protestant-Unionists (Loyalists) were pitted against Catholic-Nationalists (Republican) and were represented b...

The Supreme Court judgement prioritising walking over motorised travel on the road and declaring that the right to walk on demarcated footpaths as a fundamental right contains great ideas that will go a long way in addressing one of the most under-focused human rights. It is important to push such ideas into the attention of the decision-makers unmindful of whether their tim...

Decoding the mysteries of the universe may be a simpler task than finding some level of equanimity in dealing with the US President Donald Trump. World leaders have been wrestling with the complexity of being nice to him, but without being quite able to divine how to go about it when Mr Trump crosses the verbal Rubicon. Do they lump it and leave it or do they take on the per...

A student recently asked me who among the political leaders around the world I admire the most. It set me thinking. It seems there are virtually no claimants for statesmanship these days. The bar has been set particularly low by the head of state and government of the world’s biggest economy and oldest democracy. A recent quotable quote of the President of the United States,...

Determined to shore up its numbers in the Lok Sabha, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been on an overdrive, intensifying its efforts to lure away legislators from rival political parties through a series of defections. The defectors have either merged with the BJP or its allies while others have aligned themselves with the ruling dispensation by setting up a separate gr...