Friday, March 29, 2024

Opinion

Gangs, kidnappings, murders: Why thousands of Rohingya are desperately trying to escape refugee camps by boats

Ruth Wells, UNSW Sydney and Max William Loomes, UNSW Sydney Late last week, a boat crammed with Rohingya refugees fleeing a squalid camp in Bangladesh capsized off the coast of...

Electoral Bonds: A game theoretic enquiry into who gains at whose cost?

Shirin Akhter and Vijender Singh Chauhan The debate around electoral bonds in India has brought to the fore a...

Should you be concerned about flying on Boeing planes?

Doug Drury, CQUniversity Australia The American aerospace giant Boeing has been synonymous with safe air travel for decades. Since...

Watching ‘Dune’ from the East

Second part of the 'Dune' film series, adapted from Frank Herbert’s novel of the same title and directed by Denis Villeneuve with a stellar cast of globally acclaimed actors like Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and Javier Bardem, is gaining attention worldwide. Rising Box office collections and high ratings have made it a remarkable success. 

WTO conference ends in division and stalemate – does the global trade body have a viable future?

Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau The 13th World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi...

The bogey of ‘Love Jihad’

The so-called ‘love jihad’ is clearly a bogey! The Bishop needs to wake to the Gospel of Jesus; and together with the CM of Gujarat (where the issue is sub-judice) and their ilk, should realise that we have a Constitution which is sacred and meant to guarantee and protect the rights of all citizens!

No, ‘the longest war’ in US history is not over

Speaking from the White House on August 31, President Joe Biden lied to the people of the U.S. and to the world: "Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan—the longest war in American history." The U.S. war on Afghanistan did not end—it has only adapted to technological advances and morphed into a war that will be more politically sustainable, one more intractable and more easily exportable.
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Mahapanchayat; a signal to the regime

Overall, it was a huge demonstration of people's discontent with the incumbent government.

Close Guantánamo jail —Now

Farrah Hassen I was a college student on 9/11. The ensuing "War on Terror," anchored by the bombing and U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, has been with us ever since—virtually my entire...
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Kandhamal violence seared in memory of India’s Christians

Feb. 24, 1784, was the day the Christian community in India shed its innocence, discovering its vulnerability in a land where social, religious and other identity groups jostled for power, some with notional or virtual alliances, others with armed gangs patronized by the rulers, and still others at the head of real armies.

‘We’ Westerners have little to do with ‘their’ violence

The rise and dominance of European empires in the 19th and early 20th centuries gave birth to two new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The two nations were...
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Are we looking at a second BJP term in Uttar Pradesh?

Any increase in vote share of Akhilesh Yadav’s SP and Mayawati’s BSP means decrease in BJP’s vote share.

Why didn’t I celebrate Independence Day?

Every year on 14th August, friends turned Hindutva activists would wish me “azaadi”. I know it has become normalised for Indian Muslims. It is one of the ways that the Hindutva brigade and like-minded citizens mock Indian Muslims and want to make us realise that we should be on the other side on the Indo-Pak border, that we don’t belong here. This year was no different. Now I have stopped replying to these kinds of slurs. I have stopped proving myself “Indian” to them. I’ve just stopped engaging on this issue. 
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Uniform Civil Code: Not men vs women, Muslims

This article is in response to Alice Evans’s article titled Will the BJP’s plan for a Uniform Civil Code save Muslim women? published on Feb 03, 2021. As evident from...

Politics of saving Muslim woman

Propaganda and policy geared towards the saving of Muslim women has occupied a very central position in the politics of BJP.
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Right of Muslim to dignified life: a constitutional chimera in Islamophobic India

Over the past few years, the temporal and spatial occurrences of such Islamophobic gatherings have proliferated.

Black players and white managers: Euro-Copa in dugouts

The diversity and racism in professional football have been much discussed. Apart from that, this piece looks at how diverse is the group of men standing in the dugouts, managers. 
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