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No evidence of radicalisation at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, says UN official
UN’s Senior Humanitarian Coordinator Sumbul Rizvi warns of a humanitarian crisis ahead of cyclone season.
A year since nearly a million Rohingya refugees poured into Bangladesh, the situation is yet to stabilise, and the impending cyclone…
Statement from Women Film Practitioners
As women working in film across genres and industries in India we received the news of AMMA ( Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes) reinstating actor Dileep, who is an accused in the abduction and molestation of an actor, with shock and…
Modi tells Putin won’t go back on $4.5 billion defence deal
Russian President Vladimir Putin assures PM Modi that Moscow’s relationship with Delhi is far, far better than anything with Pakistan can ever be.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘will not walk back’ from India’s intention to buy…
Towards a regional reset?
Change often comes unannounced, and the government’s foreign policy moves over the past few months represent an unannounced but profound shift in its thinking about the neighbourhood. This could change the course of Prime Minister Narendra…
A Chronicle of the Crime Fiction That is Adityanath’s Encounter Raj
By Neha Dixit
Shamli (Uttar Pradesh): On October 8, 2017, the day Furquan showed up unexpectedly at his home, his sons, aged 12 and 10, could not recognise him. They hadn’t seen him in seven years as he had been locked up in the…
Empire Strikes Back
In what may prove a decisive blow to Nawaz Sharif’s political career, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled on Wednesday to bar him from heading his political party for being disqualified from the membership of the Parliament. The judgement…
The tragedy of losing a champion
The tragedy of Asma Jahangir's sudden passing away at only 66 years of age, on February 11, is that she has left the world at a time when it needed her most. As a singular voice against injustice and intolerance, she seemed to be one of the…
Life, uncertain and precarious
As you enter Balukhali refugee camp for the first time all you will notice is the amount of dust that clouds your vision, settling on your hair, clothes, seeping into your shoes and even finding its way into your mouth. Through the haze an…
NON-FICTION: INTEGRITY ABOVE ALL
When a pioneering journalist pens her memoirs, you pay attention. Especially when she is Zubeida Mustafa of Pakistan, a long-time feminist and champion of social causes who, from her editorial perch at the daily Dawn, witnessed momentous…
A Few Crude Men
What is disappointing about Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, a merciless takedown of the first eight months of the Trump presidency, is that it does not end in the way it should. It leads you into thinking that President Donald Trump is now…