China Beyond bilingual education in Tibet March 11, 2020 0 Image credit: Looking-north-along-the-Rebgong-valley-on-the-northeast-Tibetan-Plateau-where-the-Manegacha-language-is-spoken/Gerald Roche. Written by Gerald Roche. On March 5th, 2020, Human Rights Watch released a report titled “China’s ‘Bilingual Education’ Policy in Tibet:…
Activism New India, new era: Gunpoint democracy December 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: DSC_0920 by Suhas Das/Flickr; Licence : CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Nayan Jyoti. Assam has borne the brunt of a massive influx…
Activism Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law December 16, 2019 2 Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…
Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
Conservation Deforestation, climate change and indigenous people October 2, 2019 0 Image credit:fuel wood-charcoal by rosamariavidal/Flickr, Licence:CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 . Written by Patricia Blazey Addressing climate change is a complex problem that does not just depend…
Culture and Society Indigenous media in transformation: Languages and other factors in Taiwan September 21, 2019 0 Image credit: TITV and Alian Radio title on CTV Building 20180101 by Solomon203 /Creative Common, license CC BY-SA 4.0 Written by Chia Sui Crystal Sun What…
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 The long read: Why was Kashmir special? August 12, 2019 1 Written by Andrew Whitehead. Image Credit: Algae Rhythm/Kashmir/Flickr; Licence: CC BY- NC- ND 2.0. So, what's so special about Kashmir? That's the question underlying the…
Asia Modi and the global rise of religious nationalism June 3, 2019 0 Written by Mark Juergensmeyer Image credit: 10th BRICS summit by GovernmentZA/ Flickr, license CC BY-ND-2.0 One strand of the success of Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party…
Civil society Indonesian society and Islam: Identity politics and the making of a majority May 6, 2019 1 Written by Kikue Hamayotsu. Muslim demands and movements calling for the elevation of sharia within the state legal structure, along with numerous mass mobilisations targeting…
