28 Sep the youtube war
As traditional media struggles to report the Syrian conflict, independent bloggers trawling the digital world shape the narrative with information gleaned from social media networks....
28 Sep Desert Refuge
Umm Khaled was among the first to arrive with her young granddaughter. She had lost her daughter somewhere. Probably dead, she says. When she first came, the camp was a great unifier. Everyone was equal in their suffering. There were no shops, there was nothing....
28 Sep Historys crossroads
If it were just a square. For 16 days now one square and a unified cry has caught our attention. Hundreds of thousands have poured into Tahrir Square,made it their home,demanding the resignation of the modern day Pharaoh,Hosni Mubarak....
28 Sep Arab Spring? The season has turned
Wissam Hassan would never commit murder in private life, he had no aspiration of taking a weapon either. Fourteen months ago, the discontented and frightened youth crossed over from Syria into Turkey traversing the dense yet porous terrain....
28 Sep The Minister of Information maintains that there is no revolution
“You don’t think I’m afraid?” asked Bouthaina Shaaban, advisor to Syrian President, Bashar al Assad.We were sitting in the Ministry of Protocol in Damascus and she tugged on her black pearl necklace and fidgeted with her black and white tweed jacket. She had more reason...
28 Sep In Arab spring, Indian labour warms up to Djibouti
Djibouti. Amina Bibi can't get the pronunciation right. Her husband, over the few conversations they've had since his departure six months ago from Dhantala in West Bengal, has corrected her over and over again. She still doesn't get it right....
28 Sep The one who got away
On the night of June 11, 2014, Harjit Masih (24), of Kala Afghana village in Punjab was abducted along with 39 other Indian workers from Mosul amid the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) stunning assault on the Iraqi city. ...
28 Sep Gulf countries played a role in the Syrian uprising
V. P. Haran served as India’s Ambassador to Syria from 2009 until 2012. He speaks to Fountain Ink on how sections of the media exaggerated the uprising as well as signs that al-Qaeda was a game player since the early days of the conflict....
27 Sep The ISIS fanboys
Late on the evening of August 31, 2014, in Kolkata, four young men from Telangana made their way down from the second floor to the lobby of Hotel Krishna in New Market, where they had checked in earlier....
20 Sep The jihad on Twitter
One hundred and sixty-seven days ago, @ShamiWitness sent out a tweet: “Ya Allaah, I can’t hold back my tears… Ya Allaah, guide,protect,strengthen and expand this Khilafa. #CaliphateRestored #KhilafaRestored.”...