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Why PM Modi and Gen Bajwa mean business with India-Pakistan peace talks. Nothing else matters
What can India and Pakistan give each other to save face? This jockeying for a framework of give-and-take is likely what’s going on today. It’s been a week since Pakistan went back on its decision to open up trade with India, stalling a…
How Mamata’s Trinamool Broke The Glass Ceiling For Women In Politics
While the Trinamool Congress sails ahead of its opponents on fielding women candidates, the relatively higher numbers of women in Bengal politics is part of a longer trend of gradual inclusion, to which more than one party has contributed.
If Biden ignores Afghanistan-Pakistan, ISI will get a long rope. India must play bigger role
Giving peace a chance is out of the question in Afghanistan. Several recent attacks show someone in the neighbourhood is not happy with the way the peace talks are going.
Beijing does not respect ‘One Country, Two Systems’: Hong Kong lawmaker
As street protests continue in Hong Kong over a National Security Law proposed by China last month, Senior Journalist Smita Sharma spoke to the leader of the Civic Party and legislator Alvin Yeung in Hong Kong about the ground situation,…
Lockdown, Paatal Lok & Migrant Workers Tell Us Why Villages Exist
Paatal Lok could not have streamed at a better time. What better time for a narrative about how urban India makes everything about itself than today when our screens are plastered with the visuals of “migrant workers” in our cities? It also…
From quake to coronavirus, knee-jerk response from Nepal leadership
Government's response to the coronavirus pandemic is seen by many to mirror its post-2015 earthquake measures.
‘Teach them a lesson’: Indian women accuse Delhi police of abuse
In the hypermasculine Hindutva project, when young women are Muslim protestors against CAA- a direct tool of Hindutva-police use violence against them. Like in Jamia. When the young women are assertive & negate the Hindutva narrative of…
Ram Mandir Without Ram Rajya And a ‘Regime’ Driven By Fear of Loss
In Ram Rajya, King is “guardian of righteousness and glorious refuge of his people,” and “the protector of his subjects”. Can the BJP govt claim that they are the protectors of all their citizens after the chants of, “Goli Maaro Saalon Ko”?…
Satisfied with GoI Handling of Kashmir: Maldives Foreign Minister
In an exclusive interview with Maldives' Foreign Minister Abdulla Sahid senior journalist and SAWM member Smita Sharma finds out that Maldives consider the CAA and abrogation of 370 in Kashmir as India's internal matter and the ambassador…
Sri Lankan academics, activists ‘deeply concerned’ by CAA, NRC
Academicians from Sri Lanka have condemned the Government of India for introducing the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizen. More than 50 academicians and researchers have expressed their shock and…