In the next two decades, the South Asian region will be influenced by global developments as well as its own internal dynamics. At this juncture, it is about time to assess how the region has performed and where it can reach by 2025. Can South Asia hope to achieve development levels equivalent to the Western countries of today? For now long can the vast population of the region live with a deficit of freedom? Will democracy prevail? What is the fate of farmers in ...
The greatest challenge of the twenty first century is for us to come together to discover our common identity, to reaffirm and restore core human values, to appreciate our common history and to create a shared future. In order to shape an inclusive world in which the West, Islam and the Rest have a stake, it is necessary to shift from the centuries old model based on the doctrine of force, to a model based on the collaborative harnessing of the spirit of ...