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Ending the cycle of violence in Kashmir

Ending the cycle of violence in Kashmir

Last month, 19-year-old Adil Ahmed Dar drove a Scorpio SUV packed with explosives into a convoy of more than 70 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicles in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. When he detonated the car bomb, eyewitnesses said, it triggered an...
Cows for Peace

Cows for Peace

Alphonse’s mud brick home rises from a clearing in the banana grove off the narrow dirt road that runs through his village in Nyamiyaga in Rwanda’s Southern Province. It’s a modest dwelling: the living quarters-a few dark, stuffy rooms-are separated...
The spectre of loneliness

The spectre of loneliness

“Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.” Sigmund Freud There is a loneliness epidemic, the headlines warn. People feel disconnected, distant and disengaged from those around them. And loneliness kills. Lonely people have worse...
The bizarre prison island travelogue of Roman Quaedvlieg

The bizarre prison island travelogue of Roman Quaedvlieg

The former Commissioner of Australian Border Force, Roman Quaedvlieg, took time out of pouring petrol on the au pair scandal last week to pen his reflections on a far bigger scandal that is somehow not really a scandal at all. Initially self-published, then re-posted...
A Visit to the Dalai Lama’s Birthplace

A Visit to the Dalai Lama’s Birthplace

On July 6, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, celebrated his 83rd birthday in Ladakh, the Himalayan region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. On the other side of the world’s highest mountain range sits Lhasa, the Tibetan capital that he fled in 1959...