After his recent win, Mahinda Rajapaksa urged his voters not to attack the losing side, saying: “No matter what they did to us we must set an example”.
Families in Modi’s India are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be middle class, with their requirement for degrees and skills training.
Since 2001, Britain has compromised its passion for the rights of people in the name of counter-terrorism, thereby undermining its national security and winning enemies faster than they are eliminated.
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.
In India it is the season for rediscovering Gandhi, and everyone from politicians to intellectuals are doing it in their own way.
The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.
Run by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and freedom of expression.
Accompanying a raid and rescue operation poses difficult questions for those involved, pushing the boundaries between victim and non-victim.
Ironically, the message of scientific temper, modernity, secularism resonated more in India when the rate of literacy was low. Distinctions between science and mythology and mythology and history keep eroding.
Thousands of young men have 'disappeared' in Kashmir and there have been numerous allegations of sexual assaults. But the fight for answers and justice continues.
The State of Israel came into being thirty-one years after the Balfour Declaration, precisely because Zionist Jews were done entrusting their fate to others.
Workers are not poor and disadvantaged because they have been left behind. They are poor because they are being robbed.
