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Why is the Indian economy in free fall?
“We have seen many young adults coming to hospitals with hypertension and elevated sugar related to work stress and uncertainty of jobs. Even occult depression in on the rise,” wrote a renowned cardiologist to me, a few days ago. The news sent a shiver down my spine. Surely the Indian economy had not slipped so precariously?Indian GDP growth rates have slipped to around five percent from seven/eight percent in earlier years. The Indian economy is in a free-fall state. Poor are not getting enough to eat:A survey by the National Statistical office (NSO), reports that cconsumer spending has fallen after four decades. The report is alarming since overall rural demand has declined by 8.8 percent. Rural demand for rudimentary items like salt, sugar and spices has declined by 16.6 percent....
November 24, 2019

Why is the Indian economy in free fall?

The Iranian threat
Since the 1979 revolution that led to the establishment of a totalitarian theocracy, the Tehran regime has threatened the stability and security of the Middle East.In deciding to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement and reinstate sanctions against Iran, President Donald Trump stressed on May 8, 2018 that the Joint Global Action Plan, concluded in 2015, was the “worst agreement ever signed by his country”.Indeed, this agreement was conceived by former President Obama who wanted to reverse alliances as part of his destructive strategy, of which the so-called “Arab springs” are a sad illustration. In reality, it was a fool’s market that mainly allowed the Iranian regime to strengthen itself and use most of the income from sanctions relief to finance Iran’s...
November 24, 2019

The Iranian threat

Aung San Suu Kyi — delusions of grandeur?
MYANMAR leader Aung San Suu Kyi has decided to become personally involved in the genocide lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Gambia, on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, filed the charges last week.There was widespread surprise when she announced she would be leading the Myanmar legal team to the court in The Hague. She has no formal legal training. Her degrees were politics, economics and philosophy.This deeply-tarnished Nobel Peace Laureate appears to be intent on using her once-lofty reputation to argue in court that there was no genocide of the Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state and there was no ethnic cleansing. It would be a neat trick if she could persuade the judges that approaching a million Rohingya moved voluntarily to refugee camps in...
November 22, 2019

Aung San Suu Kyi — delusions of grandeur?

Third World lessons for the First
THE devastating fires in California and Australia have had an added horror, in that they have not simply consumed relatively scattered rural properties, they have actually reached the very edges of Los Angeles and Sydney.The iconic Australian city is this week covered in a thick haze of smoke from the inferno licking at its suburbs. Exhausted firefighters are being relieved by crews brought in from other parts of the country. Continuing high temperatures and strong winds threaten to fan the blaze. Though New South Wales is the hardest hit, there are also serious blazes elsewhere, all brought about by a three-year drought. Some parts of the country have just recorded their driest ever nine months.Environmentalists may argue many tree species require fires to help them to regenerate....
November 21, 2019

Third World lessons for the First

The masks come off
The Palestinian politician Saeb Erekat was surely wrong on Tuesday to describe the US endorsement of illegal Israel settlements as “the law of the jungle”, because even jungles have laws. What Israel has long been doing, and what the Trump administration has so foolishly accepted, flies in the face of every tenet of international law. It trashes the long-standing claim by the United States that what the Israelis have been doing in the Occupied Territories is unacceptable.If Erekat meant that the jungle was ruled by the strongest, then he was also off beam. Ever since 1948, a militarized Israel has been pursuing a carefully-calculated campaign against the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world. But its survival as a state has been in no small measure thanks to the financial,...
November 20, 2019

The masks come off

Two sides of an issue
My recent article on the verdict by the Indian Supreme Court on the Babri Mosque/Ayodhya issue elicited some very strong responses from readers, many in support of what I had stated and some strongly opposed to what I had written.One such reader went to the extent of addressing the President and Prime Minister of India to intervene on his behalf and set me straight. He wrote:“Dear President, Supreme Court of India and PMO,While India and Saudi Arabia enjoy a relationship, there are many puppets of Pakistan in Saudi journalism, who keep bashing India with lies and false narratives.“The so-called-journalist who is in CC of this email is one such personality.“But now he has gone to the further extent of assaulting the Indian judicial system, which is very fair, which even gave a good...
November 19, 2019

Two sides of an issue

The EU must act on Iran
IRAN’S ayatollahs are once more on the ropes. Swingeing fuel price rises have so far triggered four days of rioting across the country which are thought to have left scores of dead, though officially the government only admits to a dozen killings.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed the increases in fuel prices of up to 50 percent and blamed the protests on “hooligans” and “counter-revolutionaries”. The fact that the angry demonstrations have attracted widespread support suggests that far from being “hooligans,” those who have taken to the streets are ordinary people whose patience has once more been tried to the limit by the regime’s manifold failures. But Khamenei may well be right that the protesters are “counter-revolutionaries”. After 40 years of rule...
November 19, 2019

The EU must act on Iran

Separation of conjoined twins: A matter of national pride
OkazThe successful surgical separation of Libyan Siamese twins at King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh last Thursday was carried out by a large Saudi medical team led by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah.The entire Saudi community along with media and social networking sites awaited news of the outcome of the operation, which reinforces the Kingdom’s position as a humanitarian nation that has made giant strides in the area of medical and scientific achievement.The Kingdom has made significant progress in the medical field and some of its specialized hospitals can compete with world-class hospitals. Saudi doctors have become distinguished experts in various specialties.Of course, Arab countries and other countries in the region have made medical achievements in some fields. However, the separation...
November 18, 2019

Separation of conjoined twins: A matter of national pride

Time of change!
The Arab world today or, more precisely, the Middle East has become a region of transformation. Regardless of its style, manner and direction it must be described as a transformation.The great Czech writer Franz Kafka once asked: “How did I become the person I am? Am I really myself, or am I made by others rather than the person who is me?” And what applies to people also applies to peoples and nations. In the past hundred years, the Arab world and the Middle East have lost the ability to exercise tolerance in the midst of the growth of hate speech in the name of religion.The region, which was the cradle of civilizations, cultures and religions, has become a threatening center for what the French-Lebanese writer and novelist Amin Maalouf calls “the sinking of civilizations.”There...
November 18, 2019

Time of change!

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan
US president Donald Trump’s relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Turkish opposite number is a curious one. Trump, along with most legislators in Washington were incensed when Erdogan pressed ahead with the purchase of the Russian S-400 antiaircraft missile system, in defiance of US pressure and at complete variance with Turkey’s obligations to the US-led NATO alliance of which it is a member. Washington hit back by dropping Turkey from its F-35 fighter production program on the very obvious grounds that allowing Turkish plane makers to produce parts of this new advanced fighter was an absurdity in terms of security, given Ankara’s new close defense relations with Moscow. Turkey had been due to buy 100 of these new US warplanes but the complete fulfillment of the order is now...
November 15, 2019

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan

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