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Further Division of India inevitable
The biased Citizenship Act passed in India
has laid the foundation for further division of India. The widespread
agitations and condemnation at the national level as...
Nationalism, a potential threat to modern Capitalism
With the
deteriorating contemporary world order the question of what will be the next
world order examined more. Since the WWII ended capitalist ideology dominate
the world...
Indian extremists are damaging the Peace and Stability of the whole region
There existed the Citizenship Act, 1955 in
India, which was not biased and was applicable to anyone irrespective of its
race, caste, religion, etc. That was...
Gold-digging & Gender Biases in Pakistani Dramas
The phenomenon of gender-bias can be found in history as old as ever
recorded in the form of written text or visual entertainment. Biases are...
What does it mean to ‘leave no-one behind?’
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development has the principle of ‘leaving no-one behind’ at its core. Efforts
to improve social, economic and environmental conditions should focus...
Ethics, Truth and Post-Truth: Political and social implications
I want to reflect on ethics, truth and post-truth in the context of
accelerated changes in the economy, politics, society, culture and digital
knowledge, information and...
Popular Protest: How effective is it?
If there is one theme, beyond corruption and a host of economic and
social grievances, that have driven protests -- large and small, local,
sectoral and...
Best of the Net nominated essay: “Secrets”
So, mother, like Johannesburg, you cut me in deep, imaginative and raw
ways. A cut from you was a project. Thinking of you, staring at...
The mulatto
I’ll leave the pain for tomorrow. Won’t
even think about it until tomorrow. That is, if tomorrow ever comes. So, I walk
in the present, barefoot,...
Research into gender-bias and class, the Khoi, the grief of the mulatto
Other races in South Africa see us as clowns. They have always seen us
as clowns or interlopers and whose fault is that? Again, and...