Justice Markandey Katju- I have written this article in view of recent events in Afghanistan, and my high regard for the Afghan people, who have suffered so much. King Amanullah (1892-1960) of Afghanistan is one of my heroes. Although he failed in his effort to modernize Afghanistan (where Kemal Mustafa of Turkey had succeeded), due to […]
Vishnu Makhijani- In 2006, Christopher C. Doyle, a growth catalyst and CEO coach, set out to write a book for his seven-year-old daughter who was deeply interested in mythology and history. Today, he is the hugely successful author of the “The Mahabharata Quest” series with two books released, a third due later this year and […]
Ritu Jha- Finding no resource to sustain the 21-day sudden lockdown, hundreds of thousands of daily-wage workers, migrants who worked in India’s capital, opted to go on foot, walking back home in what experts believe has to happen one day, something the government should have thought about before implementing lockdown, others say. On the night […]
indica News Bureau Indian-American Aditya Vashistha has received the Google Faculty Research awards. Vashistha is an assistant professor of Information Science at Cornell University. Among the five projects which were selected for the awards included, Boost the performance and predictability of cloud computing services, improving the computer models used to predict disease and online harassment […]
Aarti Tikoo Singh- Two Islamic charities, linked to the banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami, ran a persistent disinformation campaign against India leading to hearings and resolutions on Kashmir in the US Congress last year. IANS investigation has alleged that Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and its self-described “sister organization” Helping Hands for Relief and Development […]
Prof. Solomon Darwin- During World War II, hundreds and thousands of migrant workers risked their lives and returned to their villages from Burma during the Japanese bombing. Many risked their lives and returned on foot along with their families leaving their belongings behind. My grandparents and their four small children were among those […]
Indica News Bureau Fake news is a big problem for the media and even more for social media. Facebook and Twitter are in a new kind of problem with the outbreak of the coronavirus. Fake news related to the Covid-19 is really too much to handle for Twitter and Facebook. All sorts of misinformation and […]
Partha Chakraborty- I tried to imagine a Congressional Mosh Pit on the floors of the US Senate playing Guns N’ Roses yesterday. I have not the slightest clue about musical predilections of elected representatives, would not be surprised if a good number actually loved the band. Given current realities, a mosh pit anywhere is verboten, […]
Vinita Gupta- It is something we can and must do when external and social pressures seem to derail us. These are challenging times with COVID-19 but will prove that mankind has an innate ability to rise. Empathy, compassion, and morality have risen over the last 100 years, yet negativity seems to be increasing. Pessimism does […]
Ritu Jha- A third-year Computer Science and Mathematics double major student at the University of Virginia, Soukarya Ghosh has developed an application ‘TrackCorona‘ to track how far and wide across the world the virus has spread. Sourcing data from authentic sources like John Hopkins, WHO, CDC etc, the students have developed a system to show […]
