दक्षिण एशिया
October 28, 2016
While Myanmar prepares for internationally backed national election next both, a new study has claimed that Rohingya Muslim community is facing state-sponsored genocide. While on one hand, US’ decision to rollback economic sanctions brings good news to the country; on the other hand, more than a million Burmese people are on the verge of being completely exterminated, according to a TIME...
October 25, 2016
During the ongoing curfew in Jammu and Kashmir – the longest ever curfew in the valley which has lasted for more than 100 days, J-K police have arrested close to 7,000 people in the valley, according to news reports. In what is being called the biggest crackdown in the past two decades, more than 450 people have been booked under the Public Safety Act (PSA) – the highest ever number...
October 24, 2016
As India and Pakistan blame one another for the violence in Kashmir, the situation remains at an impasse. The only way forward is reform, dialogue, and level-headed policy.
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As violence escalates between Indian police and Kashmir’s pro-independence protestors, the international community remains silent. Soon this silence threatens to become as...
October 24, 2016
Some Summations from India’s Partition Story
My engagement with partition and separatism is largely confined, I must confess, to South Asia, where I have studied the India/Pakistan question, the break-up of Pakistan into two, and the Sinhala/Tamil issue in Sri Lanka.
In my research I have focused also on India’s freedom movement, the movement for Pakistan, and the...
October 20, 2016
A group of experts from United Nations (UN) has asked the central government to release the Kashmir-based human rights activist Khurram Parvez immediately, who has been booked under Public Safety Act (PSA) by the government of Jammu and Kashmir.
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According to an Indian Express report, the UN group has conveyed its concerns about Parvez, who was stopped from going...
October 19, 2016
After MNS, Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh has opposed screening of upcoming Bollywood film “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil”, starring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan.
Photo: News 18
Singh threatened that he would “attack” theatres in entire Telangana, starting from his constituency Goshamahal, if the film is screened there.
“My idea is that a message should go to Pakistan in...
October 17, 2016
The Indian government, after the surgical strike on 29 September, 2016, details of which have not been made very clear, in response to the Uri attack on 18 September, appears to be in a complacent mood as a result of something which it deems to be an accomplishment. This is similar to the nuclear tests conducted on 11 May, 1998. Even then some BJP leaders indulged in chest thumping, some were...
October 15, 2016
अगर हम अमिताभ बच्चन के रिकॉर्ड पर नज़र दौड़ाएं तो पता लगेगा कि उन्होंने अपनी ताकत का इस्तेमाल अपने लाभ के अलावा कभी किसी और मक़सद के लिए नहीं किया है
अमिताभ बच्चन की चौहत्तरवीं सालगिरह राष्ट्रीय ख़बर थी. आख़िर वे महानायक हैं. लेकिन अमिताभ बच्चन के महानायक होने के मायने क्या हैं? क्या इसकी कसौटी उनकी अभूतपूर्व व्यावसायिक सफलता है? या, वे एक असाधारण अभिनेता हैं जिनका जोड़ कम से कम हिंदी सिनमा को...
October 14, 2016
भाषणबाज़ी, नारों और पोस्टरबाज़ी में कुछ ऐसा संदेश देने की कोशिश हुई मानो सैनिक कार्रवाई देश ने नहीं, भाजपा ने की हो!
लेकिन ‘पहली बार सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक’, ‘पहली बार पाकिस्तान को घर में घुस कर मारा’ वाले बड़बोलेपन की पोल “ऑपरेशन जिंजर” के दस्तावेज़ी सबूतों ने खोलकर रख दी है। मनमोहन सिंह शासन में सेना ने 2011 में बदले की वह सनसनीखेज़ कार्रवाई अंजाम दी थी। हाँ, उस...
October 13, 2016
According to the 2016 Global Hunger Index report, India continues to have ‘serious’ hunger score with a low rank of 97 in the list of 118 developing countries prepared by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Image credit: Tom Pietrasik
India is behind the South Asian countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, but ahead of Pakistan and three other...