Broken Bangles: The Soul of Humanity is Broken

Understanding War Is war an inevitable part of human nature, or can we envision a future where conflicts are resolved peacefully? It is difficult to understand the logic of any war from a civilisational point of view . Whenever a war erupts, the existential doubt arises and haunts us with greater intensity: is war not a self-defeating trait of human civilization? The answer is yes, and no. Many scholars have studied the connection between war, peace, and basic human nature with varying degrees of success . All of them beat their brains out trying to figure out the root causes of war and where its dateline begins in human history. The resulting theories cast light on many nuanced aspects of war, peace, and human nature. The scientific approaches of evolution, psychological theories, game theory, and much more have been used to expound the meaning of war. Kinship, hostility, group bonding, identity, altruism, cooperation, and many more similar and contrasting concepts went into this chu...

Aleppo and the New Regime in Syria When the Bashar al-Assad regime was toppled in Syria, the rebel troops first took over the Syrian city of Aleppo in a surprise attack on the Syrian army. They claimed the city’s control and, in a show of strength, paraded the streets, fully armed. A civil war was simmering on the country's margins for a long time. Russia, Iran, the US, Turkey, and Israel had intervened in Syria's many conflicts at their different stages and moments. This time, Russia bombed Aleppo, trying to push back the rebels. The same multiple rebel groups who were driven out of the city by the Syrian army were the ones who have come back now. Bashar al-Assad, the incumbent Syrian president, had been fighting the opposition groups for about 30 years continuously, as a civil war raged on and off since 2011. More than half a million people had been killed in this conflict, and no respite was in sight. Around 6.8 million Syrians became refugees, internally displaced or fleein...