Human Rights in South Asia
Watch out for turbulence in Bangladesh - Politically charged
0 comments | by Pratim Ranjan Bose
On August 8, Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, made two important statements. First, that External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj would visit Dhaka in September to attend the fourth joint consultative commission meeting between the two nations. Second, he underlined India’s interest in upholding democratic values. “We’re all democracies. We all be
Read Full ArticleTen Avatars of Indian Corruption - Satya Sagar is a journalist and public health worker
0 comments | by Satya Sagar
It is an emotionally loaded term like ‘faith’, ‘nationalism’ and ‘family’, that is often used by the middle-classes to provoke strong feelings of anger and disgust against politicians. And yet on closer scrutiny the phrase ‘corruption’ turns out to be a fuzzy concept, that fails to capture how power and injustice really operate in human soci
Read Full ArticleKashmir on the Brink - Kashmir remains a tinderbox
0 comments | by Um-Roommana
On the afternoon of May 27, markets in Srinagar and other major towns of Indian Kashmir were filled with people shopping for household items, as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan was beginning the next day. Everything was routine until social media broke the news of the killing of a top local militant commander, Sabzar Bhat, in an encounter in south Kashmir, the hotbed of local militancy. As so
Read Full ArticleThe Protectors Of Humanity - Deep into the Pit Surrounding
0 comments | by Sheshu Babu
Read Full ArticleMusings On The Eve Of Hindu Rashtra - Blood Stained Corner
0 comments | by Satya Sagar
You can smell it at a distance, in the burnt out, blackened frames of torched homes and vehicles from yet another communal pogrom. You can see it in the blood stained corner of a railway platform, still fresh from a recent lynching. And you can hear it in the guttural cries of the frenzied, saffron swathed mobs, pledging murder all the way to their cherished goals. Welcome, to the sight
Read Full ArticleThe Six Day War – The Breaking of the Middle East
0 comments | by A Book Review by Jim Miles
The Six Day War – The Breaking of the Middle East. Guy Laron. Yale University Press, New Haven/London, 2017. Between a short Introduction that attempts to construct the underlying social science rationale for the outbreak of the Six Day War and a short epilogue that simply highlights the major trend of the Six Day War lies what appears to be a well researched and informat
Read Full ArticleUmbrella Politics of Hindutva - Marginalisation of Muslims
0 comments | by Apoorvanand
India is changing in significant ways. Marginalisation of Muslims, the largest minority in the country, has often been discussed in this context. This marginalisation is getting more and more pronounced with successive elections. The resounding victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the political arm of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), an organisation committed to turning In
Read Full ArticleSimilarities Between Occupation of Kashmir and Palestine
1 comments | by Ken Stone
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.
Read Full ArticleHinduism and Terror - Hindu Extremists and Their Allies
0 comments | by Paul Marshall
Since September 11, 2001, the world’s attention has properly been focused on the violence of Islamic extremism, but there are also major violent trends in Hindu extremism that have largely been ignored in the United States. In India, this violence is supported by Hindu extremists and their allies in the Indian government, which is currently led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. One r
Read Full ArticleIndia and Israel Start to See Enemies Within Cultural Revolutions
0 comments | by Pankaj Mishra
Cultural revolutions are underway in two nation-states -- India and Israel -- founded by secular nationalists in the late 1940s. Right-wing demagogues, emerging in both countries from among previously unrepresented masses, seek to forge a new national identity by stigmatizing particular religious and secular groups. There are eerie similarities between the Hindu thugs who assault
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