Viewpoints

The Art of the Impossible or the Impossibility of Defending Human Rights?

Dr Nishant A.Irudayadason Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune. The Vatican and the Chinese government plan to renew an agreement they signed in 2018 in October, renewed again in 2020 for a two-year period. The deal, which has never been made public, would give the Chinese government the power to choose bishops and […]

REVISIONIST IMPERIAL AMBITION

Ponmala The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, 31 years after the Soviet hammer and sickle flag was lowered for the last time and replaced by the Russian tricolour, reminded the world for the umpteenth time that democracy is a fragile vessel. Gorbachev alone deserves the credit for the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the decline […]

Geopolitics on the Island on Indian Ocean

Dr Nishant A.Irudayadason Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune. Sri Lanka is trying to spare both India and China, which are engaged in a war of influence there. Indebted to China, fuelled by India since the beginning of the crisis and shortages, Sri Lanka must emerge from the economic slump by making concessions to the […]

THE AGE OF DUPLICITY

Ponmala When the words and actions of men who matter do not match, we have a directionless world. When society accepts it as the order of the day, we have an age of duplicity. Look around and you will find duplicity grinning at you from every direction. Worse still, you will also hear the deafening […]

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE REVOLUTIONIZING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE

Dr Nishant A.Irudayadason Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Jnana-DeepaVidyapeeth, Pune. The James Webb Space Telescope, which is currently exploring the depths of the Universe in search of the first galaxies formed after the big bang 13.8 billion years ago, may have discovered the most distant galaxy ever seen by humanity. Named GLASS-z13, the galaxy was […]

FROM TRUTH TO FREEDOM

Ponmala Verified scientific truths have now helped mankind to achieve the unimaginable: Using the James Webb telescope we have travelled back to the time when the first galaxies were formed. Every calculation based on scientific truths discovered by thinking man had to be applied with perfect accuracy to achieve that. If anyone of those scientific […]

Auctioning Nobel Peace Prize for the Priceless Children of Ukraine

Dr Nishant A. Irudayadason Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Jnana-DeepaVidyapeeth, Pune. Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov raised $103.5 million for Ukrainian refugee children by auctioning off his Nobel Peace Prize. Muratov won the Nobel Prize for Peace in October 2021 for his efforts to promote freedom of expression in Russia. Dmitry AndreyevichMuratov was born on November […]

The Origin of Crisis in Sri Lanka

Dr Nishant A.Irudayadason Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune. For Sri Lanka, the future looks decidedly bleak. On Monday 09 May 2022, clashes between supporters of the Rajapaksa, who has ruled the country since 2019, and anti-government protesters left five dead and more than 225 injured. The Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has just […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica