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…
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…
China Hong Kong’s powder keg September 27, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Jonathan Fenton/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Louis Augustin-Jean. Ever since the rejection of the National Security Bill in 2003, which attempted…
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…
China Supplemental education service organisations: The visible hand September 10, 2019 0 Image Credit: XDF: A brand of English education and dream maker by Daniel Taka/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Le Lin. From 2000 to…
Asia Political consultants and the changing face of India’s election campaigns August 1, 2019 1 Written By Amogh Dhar Sharma. Image Credit: Stephen Downes/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0 While there can be little doubt that the verdict from the 2019…
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-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…
Conservation Palm Oil Futures: Youth Perceptions in Indonesia June 5, 2019 1 Written by Ratih Indraswari, Stanislaus Risadi Apresian, Adam Tyson, Helena Varkkey and Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad. Image Credit to the authors. In 2006 Indonesia became…
