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Bangladesh – Family succession: After Sheikh Hasina 0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- October 10, 2020
The Awami League is a family business — who in the family will succeed Sheikh Hasina? David Bergman October 8, 2020 Sheikh Hasina (L) with her sister Sheikh Rehana (R). Photo: Paul Davey/Alamy Live News At 73, Sheikh Hasina may have many years still to go as the leader of the Awami League, a position she
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India: The idea of wasteland and two media narratives of citizenship in Assam 0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- October 5, 2020
by Bikash Kumar Bhattacharya 6 October 2020 I want to make a few observations regarding two widely circulated media articles that invoke ‘wasteland’, a colonial category for land, in speaking about state-sponsored notions of citizenship in Assam, a frontier state in northeast India. The category ‘wasteland’—and its variants “dead,” “idle,” “vacant,” “fallow,” “unutilized” land—facilitated
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Can Pakistan Reboot Its ‘Belt and Road’ Partnership With China?0
- Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- September 29, 2020
Michael Kugelman Friday, Sept. 25, 2020 After a series of setbacks, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a multibillion-dollar assortment of infrastructure projects that constitutes the Pakistani component of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, is poised for a resurgence. Or is it? Last month, the Pakistani investigative news site FactFocus published a damning expose about Asim Bajwa, the head
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We the Tibetans really need to hit the reset button to steer the fight of our sinking cause 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- September 14, 2020
Hundreds of Tibetans and Indian supporters protesting at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on the 55th Tibetan National Uprising Day on March 10, 2014. Photo: TPI/Yeshe Choesang by Ugyen Gyalpo 14 September 2020 Xi Jinping, the undisputed, authoritarian dictator of the world, with over millions of deaths under his belt, knocking out the
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Detention of Uyghurs in Xinjiang: A gross violation of human rights by China?0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- September 11, 2020
Re-education camps in Xinjiang – the frontier of fear by Eshvar Girish and Kritika Trivedi 12 September 2020 Under the guise of ‘global war on terrorism’, China has arbitrarily detained nearly 1 million Uyghurs, Xinjiang’s Turkic-speaking Muslims in educational and vocational training camps. They are constantly subjected to intense surveillance, forced
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Why China wants Suu Kyi to win Myanmar’s polls 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- September 3, 2020
China’s interests will be better served by the Suu Kyi-led status quo than a return to military-dominated rule by Bertil Lintner September 3, 2020 Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi shake hands before a bilateral meeting at the Presidential Palace in Naypyidaw on January 18, 2020. Photo:
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Book review: PolyTicks, DeMocKrazy & MumboJumbo: Babus, Mantris and Netas (Un)Making Our Nation 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- September 2, 2020
A rib-cracking satire on painful transitions in contemporary India Author – Avay Shukla Kindle price US$ 9.00 Pippa Rann Books & Media’s first publication by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 1 September 2020 Self-deprecating humour is a survival strategy of human beings and the coping mechanism of the society during the dark times.
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English Literature from the Margins Of Class, Caste, Race and Gender: Reflections on Mahasweta Devi’s Rudali 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- September 2, 2020
by Suparna Roy 2 September 2020 Abstract Literature as De Bonald considers “is an expression of society”. The Spectrum of marginalization in India is perhaps so intricately designed, that when it gets unfold; its spectrum reflects all those wailing lives which get veiled by this intricate design of culture, power, and aesthetics.
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Book Review: Inside the Tablighi Jammat 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- September 2, 2020
Author: Ziya Us Salam Publisher: HarperCollins India Year of publication: 2020, Pages:260 Paperback $ 12.73 ₹ 399.00 In an Islamophobic age, it is increasingly becoming dangerous to be a Muslim, more so if one lives in an authoritarian regime and belongs to the minority community as well. The exactly the same thing
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How a Tiny Indian Ocean Island Could Force a US-UK Rift 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- September 2, 2020
Pin Map / Shutterstock Will the U.S. choose its closest ally over the international rule of law? By Nilanthi Samaranayake September 2, 2020 Mauritius does not usually make headlines in the United States, but this small island state off the east coast of Africa could force the U.S. to rethink operations in the Middle East
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Pakistan-Saudi Spat: Hitting the Kingdom Where It Hurts 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- August 25, 2020
by James M. Dorsey 25 August 2020 A rift between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia throws into sharp relief deepening fissures in the Muslim world. Coupled with the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and a myriad of other conflicts in the Middle East, the dispute poses serious
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Book review: Gujarat Files – Anatomy of a Cover Up 0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 32 – Fall 2020, Reviews
- August 20, 2020
Author: Rana Ayyub, self-published, 2016, Paperback, 204 pages Originally published: March 25, 2016, Subject: 2002 Gujarat riots by Andrew Zeitlin 20 August 2020 Rana Ayyub, an Indian investigative reporter and practicing Muslim, disguised herself as a Hindu Indian-American filmmaker and, equipped with tiny cameras and recorder secreted in her kurta, diary, and wristwatch, went off in
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Causes of corruption: theories and empirical findings 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- August 19, 2020
by N N Tarun Chakravorty 19 August 2020 Corruption was originally a topic of Psychology, Political Science and Social Science. As a subject, corruption is new in Economics. J. S. Nye and Susan Rose-Ackerman are two of those who extensively researched in this area and wrote. Both of them wrote as a subject
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South Asia: Searching For Humanity In The Age Of Madness 0
- Commentary, Issue 32 – Fall 2020
- August 11, 2020
There are three themes that define the world we live in Madness, Hatred, and Hope. Madness Bernard-Henri Levy, the French celebrity philosopher, has coined the phrase for the period in which we are living as the age of madness. The coronavirus, he has argued, is revealing the fault- lines that divide society. We in South
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