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Sri Lanka: From segregated education to secular education0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 28, 2019
N. Sathiya Moorthy 28 May 2018 Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe deserves kudos for even belatedly realising the need for ‘secular education,’ especially at the school-level. Though not termed as such, his two-year deadline for the proposed conversion from the present education scheme “based on language and religion” could mean that much water would have flown
READ MOREIndian Politics: — Modi Returns!0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 25, 2019
by Nilofar Suhrawardy 25 May 2019 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s stunning victory in Indian parliamentary elections marking return of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister have raised apprehensions of it spelling danger signals for Indian secularism as well as democracy. Undeniably, Modi’s term, from 2014 to present, has been marked by saffronization of certain institutions
READ MOREUnforgettable Zia, As I Knew Him0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 23, 2019
By R Chowdhury 23 May 2019 Following my escape from Pakistan Army in 1971, I was posted to Z Force of Colonel Ziaur Rahman in the eastern theater of the Bangladesh liberation war. The nearly 20-day journey took me from Lahore to Khem Karan to Rajoke to Ferozepur to Delhi to Kolkata to Agartala and
READ MOREFrom Colonialism to New Colonialism: Women’s Studies Centres in India0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 22, 2019
Dr. Firdous Azmat Siddiqui 22 May 2019 Let me begin with one main commandments of animalism from George Orwell’s Novel ‘Animal Farm’ that ‘All animals are equal.’ Concept behind women’s movement was a fight for gender equality, a fight for justice that resulted into an academic discipline. Women Studies as an academic discipline in India
READ MORE2019 Election and the Debate Around the Issue of India’s Identity: A ‘Hindutva’ India or ‘Sarvadharma Sambhava’ India?2
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 22, 2019
By: Rajit Das 22 May 2019 The world’s largest democracy is going through with elections to elect the new prime minister of India. After five years of rule under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the citizens of India are making their voices heard by practicing their democratic franchise of
READ MOREBook Review; The secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019, Reviews
- May 20, 2019
by Zaboor Ahmad 20 May 2019 India and Turkey are the two leading examples of secular states in the non-secular world. Both are constitutionally secular as there is no official religion in them. However, it is different from the western conception of state-religion dichotomy. Indeed the state has acted as intrusive and regulating authority in
READ MOREWalking A Tightrope: Pakistan Struggles To Juggle Multiple Balls0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 16, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 16 May 2019 Pakistan risks falling off the tightrope it walks as it attempts to balance its relations with rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Developments in recent days, including this weekend’s Baloch nationalist attack on a luxury hotel in the strategic port city of Gwadar and a legal dispute over completion
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Sri Lankan bombings: Reincarnation of red revolution0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 16, 2019
By B.Z. Khasru May 16, 2019 With a string of suicide bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, which killed more than 250 people in the island nation in the Indian Ocean, an old question has resurfaced: What motivated the attackers? Analysis of similar events in Europe, Africa, and Asia reaches contradictory conclusions. A paper
READ MOREBangladesh’s rape epidemic: Are these a case of deviant sexual behaviour or ‘System’s failure’?0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 16, 2019
By M Adil Khan 16 May 2019 In Bangladesh incidents of loot, plunder, enforced disappearances, breakdown of rule of law, extra-judicial killings, deaths and injuries in road accidents through reckless driving have become parts of daily news. Lately, news of audacious rapes, abductions of girls and women and sexual harassments in almost all parts of
READ MORENepal: A Growing Nation of Immigrants0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 13, 2019
by HARI PRASAD SHRESTHA 11 May 2019 Nowadays, a popular buzzword loudly heard in Nepal that it is in a process to be similar to Fiji, stating that the immigrants are dominating countries’ demography. Since 1951, Nepal’s citizenship laws have been full of controversy with never-ending problems as almost all governments in Nepal seemed to
READ MORESouth Asia; EAMs at the LOC0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 11, 2019
by Supratim Barman 11 ay 2019 First, it was Zahedan where an IRGC convoy; returning home from their tour of duty, along the borders of Sistan-Baluch, are suddenly ambushed and nearly annihilated. As the sun begins to rise at dawn, on the next day, (the 14th of February), over Pulwama in Kashmir, a strikingly similar
READ MOREEaster Sunday in Sri Lanka: Crisis, Correction and Hope0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 8, 2019
By Asanga Abeyagoonasekera 8 May 2019 “What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.” Robert D. Kaplan I was 16 when I witnessed the horror terrorism first hand. It was the blast I lost my father in. When the long battle ended with the Tamil Tigers in
READ MOREIndia: Primary Education0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 8, 2019
By Eduardo Faleiro 8 May 2019 On July 2016, the State Government constituted a Committee on Education to study the system of grants and financial support to Government and Government aided primary schools and to recommend measures to improve their overall efficiency. The Committee submitted its report last January. It has not been made public.
READ MOREStrategic Regional Security; Heightening Tensions in South Asia following Trump’s exit from the INF Treaty0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- May 5, 2019
May 05, 2019 by Inoka Perera Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty marks increased tensions of an arms race in South Asia, potentially escalating rivalries between India and China leading to the possible proliferation of the already growing nuclear skirmishes between the two regional powers; India and Pakistan. Geostrategically positioned U.S.
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