The first inhabitants of the Philippines were Negritos who came 30,000 years ago from Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaya. Theirs was a primitive barangay (village type) governing system revolving round the tribal chief or the Datu –a title for a tribal…
Brazil recently is going through a serious crisis involving different sectors of the federal government. This crisis is being very well managed by President Lula, but it is too soon to know how far the country can go through any institutional crisis. Let.
A very dangerous idea virus seems to be spreading in today’s new age of widespread media and information dissemination. From the Columbine killings to Virginia Tech, school kids seem to be losing their minds as the lost few don armour and weapons and…
More than a century after construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway line by the British colonial government and almost half a century after the two nations attained their independence, the East African governments are yet to demonstrate a capacity to…
Guwahati, 20th August 2008
Guwahati along with the state today observes a mix reacted strike during the dawn to dawn general strike in the country by the Left-backed trade unions and Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) on the continuing price…
This article is derived from Brent Kennedy’s book The Melungeons: The resurrection of a Proud People published by Mercer University Press (1994)
Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln’s mother, was probably a Melungeon. The people were thought to be of…
Ranjan Kumar Amritnidhi, Delhi
We are living in the age of high-tech International Terrorism.Our country is reeling under the threat of International Terrorism.
“Global Peace Education is the only solution of International…
When in the year 2000, the Census Bureau announced that Hispanics had overtaken Blacks as the largest minority group in America, I wrote an article I called The End of Black America. At that point readers thought I was just being hysteric.
In…
Feminists argue that women are not their own barriers to advancement. They blame the situation of women not being competitively active in the traditional workforce to the concept of “glass ceiling,” a metaphor that represents the gender biased…
[The external boundaries of India as depicted on the map are neither correct nor authentic.]
The people who inhabited the Indus Valley region later spread to the Gangetic Plains and then to the peninsular part of India. Later migrations took them..
