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Justice Muralidhar, Gaza and Media Bias: The Crucial Facts The News Minute Left Out
The News Minute’s profile of Justice S. Muralidhar presents an admiring but incomplete account of his judicial career and leadership of the UN inquiry on Gaza. This analysis corrects the profile’s appointment timeline and carefully reconstructs the documented chronology of his controversial 2020 transfer. It explains why procedural rulings, criticism of anti-conversion laws and questions…
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Indus Waters Treaty After Pahalgam: The Strategic Pause India Could Not Ignore
The Indus Waters Treaty pause after the Pahalgam terrorist attack was not a sudden diplomatic impulse but the result of years of legal, strategic, and security tensions. This analysis explains how Article 370, India’s 2023 modification notice, and the Kishenganga-Ratle dispute created the background for the 23 April 2025 decision. It clarifies what abeyance means,…
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Indus Waters Treaty Crisis: Why Bharat’s Firm Stand Defends Legal Order
India’s rejection of the Hague-based Court of Arbitration ruling on the Indus Waters Treaty rests on a jurisdictional argument, not merely diplomatic disagreement. The dispute turns on whether technical objections to Indian hydroelectric projects should proceed through the Neutral Expert mechanism before any arbitration process is triggered. India argues that parallel proceedings undermine the treaty’s…
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Indus Waters Treaty: The Fragile Pact That Survived Wars But Faces a Hard Reckoning
The Indus Waters Treaty is often celebrated as a rare India-Pakistan agreement that survived wars, terrorism crises, and decades of diplomatic hostility. This analysis explains why survival alone is not the same as success. It examines the treaty’s 1960 structure, the division of eastern and western rivers, the role of the Permanent Indus Commission, and…
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Bangladesh High Court Rejects Bail for Monk Chinmoy Krishna Das amid Minority Safety Fears
Bangladesh’s High Court Division has denied bail to Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das, intensifying debate over due process and the safety of religious minorities. The analysis explains how Bangladesh’s CrPC framework guides bail decisions and situates the ruling within constitutional guarantees and ICCPR obligations. It highlights the difference between bail adjudication and determinations of guilt,…
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The Unseen Battle for Indian PoWs: Law, Memory, and a Nation’s Unfinished Duty
This long-form analysis examines Indian Prisoners of War through the lenses of history, international humanitarian law, and diplomacy. It explains how the Third Geneva Convention governs PoW treatment, registration, and repatriation, and summarizes the impact of the 1972 Shimla and 1973 Delhi Agreements after the 1971 Liberation War. It explores the enduring issue of missing…
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Justin Trudeau booed in Canada mosque over Israel-Hamas war
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced booing at a Toronto mosque during his visit due to his response to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Liberal MPs in Canada are aligning with calls from Muslim groups for a ceasefire, while prominent Canadian Jewish organizations are demanding Trudeau retract a comment that was seen as supporting Hamas’s claim that…
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US or China – Who started it?
There are many claims that it was the US, irked by China’s economic and geopolitical rise, started surrounding China with bases and military posts and thus threatened the Chinese. Is it correct? To understand the current predicament, we must understand what has happened between these two countries. Let us quickly breeze through the historical issues…