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Published in: openIndia#MetooIndia: the future is female. Or is it really?
The burgeoning movement has spilled forth beyond the confines of the film and entertainment industry. But how far will it go?
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Published in: openIndia#MeToo movement rumbles on in India
Working up public outrage is an art and not all political parties are able to create mass hysteria.
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Published in: Home‘Handicapped sovereignty’: escalating costs of Sri Lanka’s post-war development vision
As capital elbows its way in and remakes the world according to its own designs, the need to democratise this polity...
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Published in: openIndia#MeToo in a country that worships God as woman
During a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have...
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Published in: HomeA war of minds: beyond 2001-18
The west's failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, says our columnist who predicted both, is above all one of understanding.
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Published in: openIndiaGood Bye, Gandhi!
Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English...
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Published in: openIndiaHyper-extremism tends to follow extremism
The Hindutva storm-troopers would feel let down, having been trained to abuse the secular Hindus, liberals,...
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Published in: 50.50US and Russian religious right unite against ‘invasion of radical liberalism’
Anti-abortion and anti-LGBTIQ rights activists, politicians, and religious leaders met in Moldova this month for the...
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Published in: openIndiaFaultlines in India's parliamentary democracy
The executive is hardly accountable to the legislature, legislators lack tangible power, so notions of the consent...
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Published in: ourBeebWhen traditional communications outperform digital technology: Rohingya refugees
Community radio projects in the world's biggest refugee camp in Bangladesh demonstrate the significance of...
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Published in: openIndiaNaipaul: an abandoned child looks and relooks at the motherland
Naipaul always felt that his books would stand the test of time. But which of his books on India, after multiple...
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Published in: HomeBangladesh teen protests are proof that politics is not the preserve of adults
Student-led mass protests in Dhaka challenge the notion that political consciousness begins at adulthood.
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Published in: HomeFree Shahidul Alam: the Bangladeshi photographer exposing injustices around the world
Alam must be released immediately to continue his vital work as a voice for the powerless.
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Published in: openIndiaDemocracy eats its parents!
"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
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Published in: HomeIndian elections: disinformation threatens to exacerbate religious tensions
In a country with low press freedom and media literacy, fake news could be a recipe for disaster.
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Published in: openIndiaSubverting democracy without vote-rigging
Recent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and...
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Published in: HomeHarvesting hope: the permaculture movement in India
The major transformative potential of permaculture in India lies in its ability to make small-scale farmers...
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Published in: HomeThe ceasefire is essential – but what should happen next for peace in Afghanistan?
So far a persistent theme of the Afghan conflict is the glaring gap between words and actions, with both sides...
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Published in: openIndiaGod votes in India, abstains in Britain, Part II
Unlike in India, British democracy, distorted by Mammon, is spared by God.
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Published in: openIndiaGod votes in India, abstains in Britain. Part 1
Once Britain moved beyond religious nationalism, religion itself became a spent force, though not one prevented from...