India Recognising Structural Forms of Violence against Christians in India October 27, 2017 0 Written by M. Sudhir Selvaraj. Recently, the Jharkhand state assembly passed an anti-conversion bill: the Religious Freedom Bill 2017 (also known as the Jharkhand Dharma…
Australia Australia Decides: The Violence Triangle and Same-Sex Marriage October 27, 2017 0 Written by Samara Hand The same-sex marriage plebiscite now underway in Australia has, unsurprisingly, stirred much controversy. The non-binding postal survey conducted by the Australian…
Equality Alternative Narratives from New Indian Indie Cinema July 25, 2017 0 Written by Ashvin I Devasundaram. Socio-political states of flux and volatile national zeitgeists are often engines for inventive and interrogative cinematic forms. I view India’s…
Development Anti-nuclear protests in India July 5, 2017 0 Written by Ajmal Khan A.T. State-sanctioned brutal violence against its people has been the normal state of affairs from the beginning of the developmental state…
Asia The University: The Last Pillar of Democracy March 3, 2017 0 Written by Pradyumna Jairam. On February 9th 2013, the Government of India, headed by the Congress Party, executed Muhammad Afzal Guru, the lone-surviving “terrorist” behind…
Foreign Policy Kashmir: Between Entropy and Escalation March 2, 2017 1 Written by Rohan John. The contested Muslim-majority state claimed by two nuclear-armed rivals, Jammu and Kashmir is the inadvertent collateral damage in this South Asian…
Drugs Fears of a Growing Tempest: Are Dark Clouds Looming Over Duterte’s Philippines? February 20, 2017 0 Written by Sylwyn C. Calizo Jr. For many, the 2016 Philippine presidential election was considered to be the turning point for a country crippled by decades-long corruption…
Asia Prominent feminist activist Kavita Krishnan to give 2015/16 Tomlinson Lecture February 5, 2016 0 Written by Carole Spary. Our 2015/16 Tomlinson Lecture speaker is Kavita Krishnan. Kavita is the Secretary of the All India Progressive Women’s Association and a…
Asia Violence Against Women in India: Is ‘Culture’ The Culprit, or Structure? January 8, 2016 0 We're getting excited about the annual Tomlinson Lecture on 3rd March at 6pm. Kavita Krishnan will speak on 'Violence Against Women in India: Is 'Culture'…
