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Published in: digitaLibertiesThe Cam-Book gate scandal will not restore our privacy, will it?
For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not...
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Published in: HomeTo beat the hard right we’ll need to change too – a response to Edmund Fawcett
Joining forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our nations.
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Published in: openIndiaCut-throat competition distorts democracy in India
So, what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of democracy? There has to be a...
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Published in: HomeSnowden to Cambridge Analytica – making the case for the social value of privacy
Constitutionally inculcated rights and morality are slowly being undone “by the use of automated processes to assess...
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Published in: openIndiaStatues are not safe in India
One cynic says that after every election, the new Government can spend its first year in uninstalling the statutes...
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Published in: 50.50The Backlash podcast episode 1: women and the far right
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...
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Published in: openIndiaThe myth of the Indian ‘New Middle Class’
Families in Modi’s India are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be middle class,...
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Published in: openIndiaHindu authoritarianism and agrarian distress
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGandhi, Palestine and zionism: a book review
In India it is the season for rediscovering Gandhi, and everyone from politicians to intellectuals are doing it in...
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Published in: openIndiaModi government and the muzzling of the Indian media
The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.
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Published in: 50.50How India's Café Sheroes fights back against acid attacks
Run by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and...
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Published in: openIndiaWhen faith fills ballot boxes
Ironically, the message of scientific temper, modernity, secularism resonated more in India when the rate of...
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Published in: 50.50Kashmir abuses: women searching for justice challenge state use of forensics
Thousands of young men have 'disappeared' in Kashmir and there have been numerous allegations of sexual assaults....
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Published in: HomeOne Zionist view of the Balfour Declaration
The State of Israel came into being thirty-one years after the Balfour Declaration, precisely because Zionist Jews...
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Published in: 50.50What will it take to end child sexual abuse in India?
In 2012 new legislation was passed to protect children against sexual abuse. But the gap between the law and ground...
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Published in: 50.50The long road to gender equality in southeast Asia
Singapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from...
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Published in: openIndiaSqueezing civil society hurts India’s economy and democracy
India played a key moral role in international affairs during the anti-colonial struggles and as a founding member...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCritical voices in critical times: the partition of India – lessons learned, an interview with Rajmohan Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi distills the vital lessons from the past, the complicated legacy of...
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Published in: openIndiaIndia at 70: bigotry rules
"Hyper-nationalism and the closing of the mind is also ‘a manifestation of insecurity about one’s place in the world.’”
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Published in: openIndiaOf sacred cows and profane men
The cow has highlighted religious, regional, social and cultural differences. Some humans have been killed in the...