Human Rights in South Asia
The NRC Fallout – An exercise of complexities and exclusion
0 comments | by Mohammed Tahsin
The world is awash with thousands of anecdotes about large-scale migration of people to places away from their homelands. Compelled by reasons to escape persecution, evade conflicts, economic and nature-driven pressures, et al. Ideally to make a living, which erupts from a longing for infrastructure, homogenous and pervasive, quintessential for survival. However, a deliberate reducing of millions
Read Full ArticleWill There Ever Be Justice For Rohingya Muslims?
0 comments | by Dr Arshad M Khan
Ahmed, a Rohingya refugee man cries as he holds his 40-day-old son, who died as a boat capsized in the shore of Shah Porir Dwip while crossing … There is an image engraved in our minds of a stoic, reserved, elegant Aung San Suu Kyi unbending in her struggle against Burma’s generals for democracy, and we assumed for human rights. Last year, when the refugees streamed out of her country in the
Read Full ArticleAttack in Iran raises spectre of a potentially far larger
0 comments | by Dr James M Dorsey
An attack on a military parade in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition groups at home and abroad. It also deepens Iranian fears that the United States. Saudi Arabia and others may seek to destabilize the country by instigating unrest among its ethnic minorities. With competing claims of responsibility by the Islamic State and the Ahvaz Natio
Read Full ArticleRepublic of Caste supremacists - Vidya Bhushan Rawat
0 comments | by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
‘Democracy day’ was being celebrated yesterday on social media where political leaders ‘greeted’ their ‘bhakts’ and hailing India as one of the ‘biggest’ democracies of the world. Things are moving so fast these days that it has become too difficult to focus. The power of information sharing has reduced the power of ‘thinking’. Visual world is so attractive that we are unable
Read Full ArticleHow Vedic Brahminism Stunted The Development Of Sciences
0 comments | by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
After the Bharatiya Janatha Party came to power and ruled the nation for two terms from 1999-2004 and 2014 to present a lot of propaganda by the Brahminic pundits belonging to that ideology clamour that all modern sciences, originated in Europe, America and China and Japan is no match to the Vedic science that the ancient Brahminism has built. Particularly after the Narendra Modi came to power all
Read Full ArticleBangladeshi Regional Migration Could Plunge South Asia Into War
0 comments | by Andrew Korybko
Whether part of a preplanned strategy or not, large-scale migration flows often destabilize the destination country, and India and Myanmar are bracing for the geopolitical consequences of the Bangladeshis within their borders acquiring a firmer sense of identity separateness from their hosts. Ivy League researcher Kelly M. Greenhill’s revolutionary concept about “Weapons of Mass Migration”
Read Full ArticleSimilarities between Palestine and Kashmir - The problems of Kashmir and Palestine
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The problems of Kashmir and Palestine both date back to 1947. While Palestine is well known globally, Kashmir is virtually an unknown entity. Ken Stone of the Canadian Peace Alliance thinks it ought to be brought into mainstream. The similarities are striking. United Nations (UN) in 1948 promised self-determination both
Read Full Article26/11: The Betrayal of India The Betrayal of India, Pharos
0 comments | by Dr Ludwig Watzal
Perhaps the FBI needs guys like Elias Davidsson to solve the circumstances of the 9/11 attacks. Could he have been successful within such an organization? Usually, the FBI investigators can only go so far as their superiors want them to go. That’s why a highly qualified researcher such as Davidsson would have gone nowhere within the FBI.
Read Full ArticleConstructing Muslim Enemy: RSS/BJP Campaign for 2019 Elections
0 comments | by Shamsul Islam
The next Indian parliamentary elections slated for the first half of 2019 (though some political commentators believe that this election may not take place if Modi finds t
Read Full ArticleA hidden potential of Contemporary Dalit Uprisings
0 comments | by Vishal Verma
Today, Indian politics is going through a particular kind of change, especially in the area of politics of uprising. Indian politics has long history of uprising,
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