Asia View from Bangladesh October 25, 2019 0 Image Credit: Gary Todd/Flickr; Licence: Public Domain Written by Ikhtisad Ahmed On 7 October 2019, a student named Abrar Fahad was beaten to death in…
Asia A most dangerous interaction effect in India October 24, 2019 1 Image Credit: India/China Border by BentheCM/ Flickr; Licence: Public Domain Written by Sten Widmalm. What threatens India’s democracy the most? The Hindu nationalist wave led…
Asia The Long Read: Gandhi’s racism October 2, 2019 1 Image Credit: ..gandhi. by Luke Cox/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0 Written by Faisal Devji. If the memory of Mahatma Gandhi lives on today, then it…
Article 370 The Long Read: Straw man arguments and the removal of Article 370 September 27, 2019 0 Image Credit: Patrik M. Loeff/Indien: Kashmir 1997/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Ather Zia. The Indian government, headed by the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata…
Article 370 The Long Read: The moment of reckoning for Kashmir September 25, 2019 0 Image Credit: Andrea Schieber/Dal (lake) and the Shikaras - Srinagar, Kashmir, India/ Flickr ; Licence: CC BY- NC- ND-2.0. Written by Mohamad Junaid. In a unilateral…
Article 370 News from Kashmir: The broader view September 6, 2019 0 Image Credit: flowcomm/Shekaras, Kashmir, Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Cynthia Mahmood. On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked Article 370 of the…
China Mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong: Aspirations, tensions, ambivalence September 4, 2019 0 Image Credit: 香港大學西閘入口 (West Gate entrance to The University of Hong Kong) by Martin Ng/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Cora Lingling Xu. Between…
Article 370 Homonationalism, pinkwashing and the question of (queer) Kashmir August 28, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee. Image Credit: Rajarshi MITRA/ Dal Lake Dreams, Flickr; Licence: CC By 2.0 Following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of…
Asia-Pacific Chinese overseas students then and now: Lei Haizong and the myth of a Chinese liberal martyr July 2, 2019 0 Written by Xin Fan. Image Credit: Sun Comes Up Over the Bay Bridge by Thomas Hawk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. In 1926, 24-year-old Lei Haizong was studying at…
Civil Society Reforming an ‘evil’ party-list system July 1, 2019 0 Written by Julio C. Teehankee. Image Credit: Election Posters by David Stanley/CC; Licence: CC BY 2.0. At the end of the hotly contested 2019 midterm elections in the Philippines,…
