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 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…
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…
Activism Contested centenary: Remembering the May Fourth Movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities July 4, 2019 0 Written by Els van Dongen. Image Credit: 51358-Qingdao by xiquinhosilva /Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are…
Asia Why accountability matters: The case of Sri Lanka June 18, 2019 0 Written by Viruben Nandakumar. Image Credit: Takver/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Over a decade has passed since the Sri Lankan civil war, but the memories and trauma of…
Crime Militarising the police, constabularising the military: Insights on Philippine public safety and security strategy June 3, 2019 0 Written by Ananda Devi Domingo-Almase Image Credit:Image Credit: Philippine National Police Train with JIATF West by JIATF West/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. In an article…
Asia Combating the weaponisation of digital media in Sri Lanka May 23, 2019 0 Written by Nuzaifa Hussain. Image credit: mkhmarketing/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. A temporary block on several social media platforms including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Viber, IMO,…
Asia Tourism vs. remittances: The impact of the Easter attacks on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings May 22, 2019 0 Written by Bilesha Weeraratne. Image credit: Ronald Saunders/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Sri Lanka was only a few days short of celebrating a decade of peace…
Asia Media, money and majoritarianism: The Indian elections 2019 May 8, 2019 0 Written by Nitasha Kaul. Every five years, Indian politics generates a crescendo of competing frenzied passions as nearly a billion eligible voters get their fingers…
Burma/Myanmar Why is Myanmar burning while Sri Lanka is not? March 2, 2018 0 Written by Rizwan Zeb. How and when does an ethnic conflict turn violent? Who plays the decisive role in politicising an ethnic group? What are…
