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A Moment Of Rupture

A Moment Of Rupture

Women are speaking and they are angry. There’s a new language of dissent.

By: Paromita Chakrabarti In the weeks since the #MeToo survivor accounts surfaced on social media calling out men in powerful positions in the media and the entertainment industry for their sexual misconduct and breach of trust, most conversations with friends and female colleagues have been about how triggering the accounts of these incidents have been […]

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Lip service to labour rights

Lip service to labour rights

The exodus of migrant labour from Gujarat highlights the indifference of States to their well being and rights

By: Indira Hirway Gujarat is one of the top States in India that receive migrant workers, largely temporary and seasonal, on a large scale. In Gujarat, they work in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs in a wide range of activities such as in agriculture, brick kilns and construction work, salt pans and domestic work, petty services […]

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INDO-PAK FOREIGN MINISTERS AT THE 73RD SESSION OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INDO-PAK FOREIGN MINISTERS AT THE 73RD SESSION OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

By: Mushtaq Hurra Every year, world leaders assemble at New York and make speeches in the UN general assembly to highlight the issues and problems their respective countries are confronted with. Apart from national issues, different world leaders including those who have been monopolizing United Nations organization, pledge to resolve the different issues of international […]

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Emperor’s New Clothes

(This week we are simply reproducing an old European tale. The reason being that it seems very relevant today when an ordinary Kashmiri is flooded by the boastful assertions that claim a lot but mean precious little. They say less said the best: We leave it open for the readers to draw their inferences)

Many years ago there lived an emperor who loved beautiful new clothes so much that he spent all his money on being finely dressed. His only interest was in going to the theater or in riding about in his carriage where he could show off his new clothes. He had a different costume for every […]

 Niloofar Qureshi

Of Pens and Swords!

Of Pens and Swords!

Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) militant Manan Wani is no more. A promising scholar pursuing his PhD from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Manan shocked everyone when he decided to quit studies and become a militant in January this year. In an emotional letter his AMU colleagues implored him to reconsider his decision of giving up the pen […]

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The India that does not shine is bigger than the India that does

The India that does not shine is bigger than the India that does

The obsession with economic growth and the stock market hides other important facts about the economy

By: Anup Sinha Every time quarterly or monthly reports of the Indian economy are announced there is a reaction in the media. If the results are worse than the previous ones, then impending doom is forecast. If the results are better than the previous ones, there is unbridled optimism about future economic prospects. Both reactions […]

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#MeToo India has squashed clichés once linked with victims of sexual harassment.

#MeToo India has squashed clichés once linked with victims of sexual harassment.

BY: Shefalee Vasudev Besides bombing fear from the minds of “victims” of sexual harassment by flagging the road not taken, #MeToo India has also bled out the clichés of appearance that shrouded women who spoke up. Some will argue this is too trivial a matter to table when a posse of women journalists with strength […]

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Myanmar and the limits of pan-Islamism

Myanmar and the limits of pan-Islamism

BY: Faisal Devji Since Myanmar’s latest bout of violence against the Rohingya began in 2012, there has been a slow uptick of outrage in the Muslim world. But it was only recently, once international observers described what was happening there as an ethnic cleansing, that Muslim concern became more vocal than protests in Europe or […]

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Sensible road map

Sensible road map

THE panic created by the sharp decline in the stock market was, ultimately, the final blow. With the PTI government finally accepting that Pakistan must go to the IMF, it is now time to focus on what exactly is needed to restore macroeconomic stability and implement a programme that paves the way for sustainable growth. […]

 Happymon Jacob

A security architecture without the mortar

A security architecture without the mortar

In April this year, the NarendraModi government set up a Defence Planning Committee (DPC) to assist in the creation of “national security strategy, international defence engagement strategy, roadmap to build (a) defence manufacturing ecosystem, strategy to boost defence exports, and priority capability development plans”. Earlier this month, it also decided to revive the Strategic Policy […]