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January 16, 2017
अमेरिका में 15 साल की एक मुस्लिम लड़की ने दावा किया है कि उसे उसके हिजाब के कारण एक चालक द्वारा एक स्कूल बस से दो बार उतारा गया। लड़की के परिवार ने स्कूल वालों से माफी की मांग की है।
परिवार के वकील रानडाल स्पेंसर ने कहा कि उताह के प्रोवो सिटी में टिम्पव्यू हाई स्कूल में पढ़ने वाली लड़की जान्ना बाकिर से बस चालक ने बस की इंटरकॉम प्रणाली का प्रयोग करते हुए कहा कि बस से उतर जाओ, तुम यहां की...
January 6, 2017
Over New Year’s, I had two phone conversations with American political scientist, activist, professor, and author Norman Finkelstein about the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2334 of December 23, which labeled Israeli settlements a flagrant violation of international law. The transcript is slightly shortened.
Norman Finkelstein down by the sea in Brooklyn
Q. Tell...
January 5, 2017
दो साल पहले टुर्की के समुंद्र तट पर औंधे मुंह पड़े मासूम अयलान कुर्दी की लाश ने पूरी दुनिया को झकझोर कर रख दिया था। डेढ़ साल के मासूम कुर्दी की मासूम से तस्वीर ने पूरी दुनिया का ध्यान तो अपनी ओर खींचा ही था दशकों से गृह युद्ध में फंसे देशों पर भी सवाल खड़ा कर दिया था।
अयलान कुर्दी जैसी दिलों को झकझोरती एक और तस्वीर दुनिया के सामने आई है। यह तस्वीर बानगी है गृह युद्ध जैसे हालातों...
December 30, 2016
Every December, lexicographers around the world choose their “words of the year”, and this year, perhaps more than ever, the stories these tell provide a fascinating insight into how we’ve experienced the drama and trauma of the last 12 months.
There was much potential in 2016. It was 500 years ago that Thomas More wrote his Utopia, and January saw the launch of a year...
December 30, 2016
What constitutes “vulgar and harmful pornography” remains undefined by the government body charged with making this determination, as the country rolls into its third day of internet censorship.
Yet that is the criteria being used to block over 500 sites by a little-known taskforce whose credentials for supervising adult entertainment are unclear.
BTRC Secretary Sarwar Alam...
December 30, 2016
As early as January, when David Bowie departed the scene, some were already looking dubiously at 2016. Bowie was an icon of the 1970s, the era when what is now the dominant section of the population in most Western societies in terms of spending power – the post-war baby boomers – came to maturity. As more cultural legends from that age also died – many without the last burst of...
December 30, 2016
The new right in Latin America has an unprecedented social base: the middle classes (and a part of the popular sectors) culturally modeled by extractivism.
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Mauricio Macri supporters in Argentina. Magalí Iglesias/Flickr. Some rights reserved.
A new right is emerging in several parts of the world. In Latin America, it has a profile of its own and a new,...
December 30, 2016
Radicalism is nothing but a byproduct of misinformation coming back to haunt us
The youth today have a different thinking process/BIGSTOCK
As a journalist, I often come across young people who are eager to listen to my views on global events which often cannot be explained unequivocally.
During the invasion of Iraq and then Libya, the common questions were around the...
December 30, 2016
There are a little less than 4 lakh Catholic priests in the world, actually 3.92 lakh in 1992, the year for which authentic data is available. Every year many are killed, injured or arrested in the world’s hotspots, from the steamy forests of Latin America where they face hostile governments and drug lords, through to Indonesia, Malaysia, and occasionally, India. And now,...
December 29, 2016
Several incidents of organised violence against ethnic and religious minorities took place in 2016.
Opportunistic groups have used religion as a political device creating an atmosphere of fear making hundreds of minorities leave Bangladesh in large numbers that experts say they have not seen since the Liberation War.
Although the constitution protects religious freedom and ensures...