Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr Day
In the United States, racial tensions in 2014 threatened to boil over into widespread unrest and riots. This conflict was the consequence of perceived injustice and inequalities between predominantly white police forces and min...
Saving the Future with Plastic Bulbs
“Have you heard of the plastic bulb?” It is a question passed around, that in most cases received this answer; does it melt? To most people plastic around heat equals melting. But, according to scientists in the US, a plas...
The India-Pakistan Conflict: Thinking Beyond the Violence
India is a growing global force with a rapidly developing economy and fantastic stores of human capital. But there are incidents occurring with Pakistan which could have come straight out of a banana republic Four Indian soldie...
The Other Special Relationship
There are few countries strong enough to make a cameo in the national debates, let alone acquire their own platform. Of these countries, we are at war with one, potentially with another, and are economically engaged with the la...
Offence 295 B, Act XLV 1860 – Blasphemy or Hypocrisy?
Offence 295 B– Defiling a copy of Holy Quran. Whoever wilfully defiles, damages or desecrates a copy of the Holy Quran or of an extract there from or uses it in any derogatory manner or for any unlawful purpose shall be p...
The War Against Killer Robots
“As a species, we’ve somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever survive our own ingenuity.R...
