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“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf
When I was a teenager my...
The Romantic Dream Of Reading Jhumpa Lahiri During Struggle And Depression In Lockdown
Jhumpa Lahiri is an impossible beauty. I started reading her again during lockdown remembering The Namesake and The Lowland.
I take pictures of female writers...
The Rules-Based Order, Maritime Freedom and Recent Naval Operations in the Barents Sea
Last week, the U.S. Navy announced publicly that a group of warships had entered the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea to “conduct maritime...
The Pioneer Doris Lessing, The Unaccustomed Earth of Rhodesia
Women novelists or rather women who write know about pain as subject matter.
Pain. Nobody knows about pain or the memory of pain or that...
On the page the novelist-poet questions in Kiran Bhat’s seminal work: We of the Forsaken World
The passionate outsider is people. Male people, female people, the displaced, dispossessed who live within the boundaries and structures of psychological extremes.
In a broken...
The lessons of ‘Non-discrimination’ from pandemic COVID-19
The unprecedented outbreak of novel coronavirus COVID-19 has stretched the frontier of human capacity to combat an emergency situation. Before the emergence of this...
Coronavirus: What Are the Options? What Are the Implications?
Authors: Sajad Abedi and Mohammad Amin Zabihi
Up to this point, 1,765,500 cases, 108,000 deaths; and still no peaks and no promising solution. The situation...
Do Migratory Birds Connect our World: Analyzing from the Perspective of Collective Legal Response
Authors: Prakash Sharma and Partha Pratim Mitra
On May 09, the world celebrated the World Migratory Bird Day in order to raise awareness of migratory...
Learning in light of crisis
Bangkok – The global pandamic of COVID 19 has hit the world in a way nobody has foreseen, let alone prepared to respond. It...
Revolution from within
A woman who has been abused has deep trust issues. She either hates men, or becomes promiscuous in her sexual lifestyle. She realises that...