by Scott Bleiweis | May 26, 2015 | Monitor
A farmer in Patiala, India shows damage to wheat caused by unseasonably heavy rains in April 2015. While India and Pakistan don’t see eye to eye on pretty much anything, climate change dangers may help finally bring them together. Photo: Getty Images via...
by Charles Cameron | May 7, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in which the Islamic State is nicely viewed through the lens of WB Yeats ] . My review of Jessica Stern & JM Berger‘s book, ISIS: State of Terror, just came out in tbe Takshashila Institution‘s magazine, Pragati....
by Charles Cameron | Mar 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a highly recommended article on an often overlooked topic ] . ** Amb. Husain Haqqani has a new piece up on the Hudson Institute site, Prophecy & the Jihad in the Indian Subcontinent, which deals with the Ghazwa-e-Hind. I have quoted...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lodi Garden is not a manicured place. Its ambient vegetation is Delhi’s scrubby woodland, the scrappy growth that springs back after a dose of over-civilization. But there are lawns, too, stubbly grassy expanses to play cricket on, to picnic...
by Charles Cameron | Feb 16, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in real estate it’s location, location, location — in thought space it’s context, context, context ] . Timothy Furnish offers us context for the newly released video of Islamic State beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic...
