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Does the US Presidential Election matter to the Intra-Afghan Peace Deal?0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- October 28, 2020
by Rajarshi Chakraborty 29 October 2020 The whole world is eying on the US presidential election happening next month. The election result is likely to have an enormous impact on world politics. After the killing of Osama bin Laden, the US government then headed by Barack Obama, started reducing the presence of its troops
READ MOREHuman Rights Violations in India: The Malaise, Context and Implications0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- October 25, 2020
by Rajesh Kumar Sinha 26 October 2020 One of the significant developments that have opened up the socio-politico fabric of India before the world like never before, has been the extraordinary focus on the issue of human rights violations in the country. The issue has started getting all the more attention on
READ MOREA War of Narratives: Understanding 2020 Delhi Violence in India0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- October 25, 2020
by Hisham ul Wahab P 26 October 2020 It is, in fact, not the event per se would be incorporated into the annals of history, but a multiplicity of narratives compete with each other to be visible and potent in tomorrow’s gaze. Hence, endeavors to narrate the events through the prisms of
READ MOREMaldives: Yameen camp’s efforts to take ‘India out’ campaign to Parliament fails0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- October 20, 2020
by N Sathiya Moorthy 19 October 2020 After failing to arouse public enthusiasm for their ‘India out’ campaign, Opposition PPM-PNC combine, identified with the jailed former President Abdulla Yameen, has tried to raise it in Parliament. However, the Opposition could not succeed in Parliament too, as Speaker Mohammed Nasheed threw out an ‘emergency motion’, citing conceptual and
READ MORERe-birth of Untouchability- Dalit women during COVID- 190
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- October 17, 2020
by Ali Saha 18 October 2020 Abstract The article discusses the violation of Dalit women’s rights during COVID-19. Pertaining to the ideological hegemony of caste-gender nexus, the pandemic has created another layer of oppression for the Dalit women who were already victims of the triple oppressions of poverty, being female and being female Dalits.
READ MOREBook review: Buddhism & Political Theory0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020, Reviews
- October 15, 2020
Matthew J. Moore. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. 198 pp. (hardcover), US $78.00, ISBN 978-0-19-046551-3. by Punsara Amarasinghe 15 October 2020 Any attempt in creating connectivity between Buddhism and politics may stand as a paradoxical endeavour with the common depiction on Buddhism as a philosophy which seeks the liberation
READ MOREA review of Arundhati Roy’s latest- AZAADI0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020, Reviews
- October 11, 2020
Published: 3 September 2020 ISBN: 9780241470039 Imprint: Penguin eBooks Format: EBook Pages: 256 A Pessimistic yet Romantic longing for freedom by Bilal Ahmad Tantray 11 October 2020 Internationally recognised, domestically controversial and self-proclaimed seditious author, Arundhati Roy released her latest collection of essays titled ‘AZAADI’ in the first week of September this year. It has been released as
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Begumganj (Bangladesh) gang-rape: the piecemeal solution is not the answer0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- October 7, 2020
Demanding justice for the gang-rape of a woman in Noakhali a month ago. The perpetrators filmed their crime and the clip went viral recently. Photo: Palash Khan By Adil Khan 8 October 2020 I don’t know who drew this rape-map of Bangladesh, but this is telling geography of rape culture which has spread
READ MOREIndia’s Active Hybrid War against Pakistan0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- September 30, 2020
By Basma Khalil 30 September 2020 Hybrid warfare is an emergent domain in which irregular means of warfighting against the adversary state are used rather than a formal declaration of war. It has extended the battlefield to almost every segment of states and their societies as opposed to traditionally being restricted to be fought
READ MOREThe State of Play in Intra-Afghan Peace Talks0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- September 28, 2020
by Muhammad Mahmood 28 September 2020 The US-backed Afghan government and the Taliban held peace talks on Saturday, September 12 in Qatar’s capital Doha. This was the first-ever face-to-face meeting between them after nearly 20 years of conflict that began with the invasion and military occupation of Afghanistan by the US. In fact,
READ MOREBOOK REVIEW: TAMAS0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020
- June 20, 2020
By Yuvraj Trivedi 20 June 2020 “Kites shall hover, kites and vultures shall continue to hover for long like the receding tide of the sea, the tide of the riots had subsided, leaving behind all kinds of litter and junk and garbage.” The above two quotes from the book summarise the before and after of
READ MOREBook Review: Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics: The Case of Kashmir0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020, Reviews
- June 1, 2020
by Shah Munnes Muneer* 1 June 2020 The book is a collection of different narratives collected and framed mostly through interviews across different perspectives. The author’s thrust is apparently on the subaltern section of the women-folk who had affected much than those who became popular in the peoples history of Kashmir. The first chapter offers
READ MOREBook review: Curfewed Night0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020, Reviews
- April 19, 2020
by Peerzada Kafeel 20 April 2020 Curfewed Night is a poignant account of a long pending and somehow forgotten conflicts. This memoir of fifteen chaptered non-fictitious novel is a well-received account of what the author has witnessed personally. Starting with the innocent childhood memories of calmness and peace around him, he gradually pushes a reader
READ MOREMidnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition. Book review.0
- Commentary, Issue 33 - Winter 2020, Reviews
- April 15, 2020
by Arnold Zeitlin 15 April 2020 Reading Midnight’s Furies account of the 1947 partition of India through the prism of the year 2020 and the widening Hinduization of Narendra Modi’s India, one can summon sympathy for the obstinate villain of author Nisid Hajari’s piece — Muhammed Ali Jinnah. Jinnah, the revered Quad-i-Azam (Great
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