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October 17, 2016
There’s been a great deal of excitement over Bob Dylan winning the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. It’s rare for artists who have achieved widespread, mainstream popularity to win. And although Nobels often go to Americans, the last literature prize to go to one was Toni Morrison in 1993. Furthermore, according to The New York Times, “It is the first time the honor has gone to...
October 17, 2016
‘EXECUTION IS A TERORIST’S TOOL: Stop the cycle of violence’, screams a powerful poster brought out by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (www.worldcoalition.org) for the World Day against the Death Penalty, October 10th 2016!
The focus this year is on ‘terrorism’ and whether the death penalty is actually a deterrent to an act of terrorism....
October 17, 2016
Aleppo burns and Mosul reels. But in the background, yet more conflicts are incubating.
File photo: Ayman al-Zawahri and Osama bin Laden, 1998. Mazhar Ali Khan/AP/Press Association Images.
The combined Russian-Syrian bombardment of eastern Aleppo continues to be intense and often indiscriminate. In this the operation resembles the destruction of Grozny in the two Chechen wars of the...
October 14, 2016
Politically I do not know where he stands today.'
Image: Pierre Guillaud/AFP
I’m not really sure how I feel about Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature. Firstly, there is nothing sacred about Nobel, whose fortune was made by inventing, manufacturing and selling military explosives. We can go past that one as it’s an old story and even war profits may...
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...
October 13, 2016
A research conducted by Fitch group firm BMI has predicted that India’s beef industry will continue to lead the global beef trade in volume despite the rise of nationalistic Hindu sentiments in the country, as reported by The Indian Express.
Image: BoomLive
“India specialises in the production of cheap and abundant buffalo meat and will continue to lead the global beef trade...
October 13, 2016
Britain is a nation of real diversity, tolerance and multicultural vibrancy. But for those who have suffered hate crime, it can be an alienating and terrifying place. Police figures have shown that hate crime surged in the UK in the weeks following the EU referendum vote, and still remains at significantly higher levels than a year ago.
Image:Roberto.Trombetta/flickr, CC BY-NC
But two...
October 13, 2016
Using cross-national data in human rights research helps perpetuate social wrongs.
Elections in the US are just around the corner, and it looks as if, once again, the results will ultimately hinge on outcomes in a few swing states. Perhaps foremost among these is Florida, where almost 25% of its African American citizens are disenfranchised because they are either felons or ex-felons. Florida...
October 12, 2016
Now we know what it is to be in the endangered minority whose rights and privileges may be at risk.
During the 2014 general election, I, along with many other NRIs, pledged my vicarious support to the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and Narendra Modi. Any arguments that called into question Modi’s dubious human rights record and worrisome support for the Hindutva-oriented Rashtriya...
October 12, 2016
The responses of feminist activists to the Suspend Judgement! campaign reveal the hidden hierarchies of power and exclusion we must confront. Part 2. Part 1.
Suspend Judgment! leaflets on display at the AWID Forum. Designed by Sherna Dastur/ CREA.
In the days before the internet, smartphones, texting, Facebook, twitter, Instagram, and what have you, the distribution of parchas (Hindi for...