Articles By Palash R. Ghosh

Salva Kiir

Why Does The President Of South Sudan Always Wear A Cowboy Hat?

Kiir wears the ten-gallon Stetson so often in public that it has become his trademark.

Adultery In Pakistan

Pakistani Police Jailed For Parading Adulterous Couple Naked Through Streets

Mobile phone footage of the incident shows the police beating the man.

Wagner

Bayreuth Music Festival Still Stained By Wagner’s Links To Nazism

Wagner wrote many tracts that vilified Jews (although his anti-Semitism was hardly unusual in 19th-century Europe).

Asians Expelled From Uganda

Uganda: 40 Years After Idi Amin Expelled Asians

The expulsion is largely forgotten today, except by the Ugandan Asians themselves and their descendants who have spread across the world.

Sikh Protest

Sikhs: Again Mistaken For Muslims? Alleged Gunman Identified

The massacre of six Sikhs at a temple in Wisconsin on Sunday would appear to be the manifestations of that community’s worst fears in the United States. The alleged gunman, killed by police, has been identified as Wade Michael Page; his motives remain unknown.

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe: Fifty Years Later, Still The Greatest Star On The Planet

Marilyn is as great a legend as this country as ever produced – she shares eternal life with such luminaries as Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Wayne and Louis Armstrong.

Chick-fil-A

Chick Fil-A: A Sad, Sorry, Pathetic Spectacle For All Parties Concerned

Not only did this represent a grave violation of fair trade practices, but it also smacked of a naked ploy to consolidate their political bases (who, no doubt, agree with their views anyway).

Barka

French Judge Asks UK To Arrest Moroccan Olympic Chief For 1965 Abduction Case

Patrick Ramael has tried detain Hosni Benslimane for the past five years, without success.

Golden Temple, Amritsar

Pakistan Sacks Top Law Officer For Performing Menial Tasks At Sikh Temples

Khan said he performed those humble duties as a goodwill gesture and to promote better relations between faiths.

Peasant In Colon, Honduras

Honduras Bans Guns In Colon Region, But Paramilitaries Will Be Exempt

Honduras, which has the world’s highest homicide rate already -- estimated at 86.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants according to the United Nations -- has witnessed a particularly gruesome spike in carnage in Colon, from two different fronts.