INSIGHTS
Why is Education Being Corporatized?
In the southern Indian state of Telangana, at least 23 teenagers have killed themselves since the scores of their school-leaving exam results, processed by a private software firm, Globarena Technology, were announced in April. The state education board of Telangana has impersonalized education by outsourcing the job of conducting the school-leaving exam, processing the scores, and announcing them for more tha
Review of Fawzia Afzal-Khan’s Siren song: Understanding Pakistan through its women singers
Masood Ashraf Raja’s book ISIS: Ideology, Symbolics, and Counternarratives attempts to come to terms with the transnational practices of Islam and Islamism, constituted within historically and geographically specific points of origin and migration. The specific religion and the specific local and national contexts within which it is practiced shape the affiliations that Migrants can fashion with their countries of origin. For while transnational practices do traverse two or more national territories,
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The decay of the Urdu language in post-Partition India
After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu literature in post-Partition India and its impact on national politics.
Nuanced Readings of (INC) politics in the wake of Indian elections
About a year ago, I wrote an article on majoritarianism in South Asia, which is feared as much as monarchism. Several well-meaning people—academics, writers, intellectuals, and opinion makers—are worried, rightly so, about the overwhelming victory of the BJP in the recent general elections in India. But wouldn’t it behove those opinion makers and intellectuals, some of whom are my friends, to hold the Indian
Delineation of concrete measures
Armed insurgency and counter insurgency in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Jammu and Kashmir scorched the landscape, blighting educational and economic opportunities. Despite their active role in political mobilization of 1931, the Quit Kashmir movement (anti-monarchical movement) of 1946, and the fierce nationalism of 1947, terror made women revert from the public to the private realm. But there are some compelling examples of Kashmiri women working through the discourse of
The Revival of Democratization is Not a Natural Corollary, But Requires Deliberate Efforts.
Although the Congress party has formed governments in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chattisgarh following the defeat of the BJP in all three states, the revival of secularism is not a necessary corollary. The tendency to equate secularism with the Congress is rather naïve.
بھارتی کشمیر میں انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیاں
جب ایک انسان کے حقوق چھینے جاتے ہیں تو تمام انسانوں کے حقوق پامال ہوتے ہیں۔ حال ہی میں کشمیر میں سات شہریوں کے قتل سے برصغیر میں جمہوریت کے بدنما داغ نمایاں ہوئے ہیں۔ حکومت اور ریاستی اداروں کی بے حسی سے عوام کی آزادی دلی میں اضافہ ہوا ہے۔ کشمیر میں مسلح شورش اور انسداد بغاوت میں عوام کے حقیقی مسائل، صدمات اور مشکلات کا تذکرہ کہاں ہے
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“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened”
The killing of seven civilians in Kashmir today exposes subcontinental democracy as a brutal façade and continues to instigate disgruntlement and antipathy towards democratic procedures and institutions in the state.
In accounts of insurgency and counter insurgency operations in the J & K, where
A woman’s selfhood and her ability to act in the public domain: Resilience of Nadia Murad
The Norwegian Nobel Committee underscored, "This year marks a decade since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1820 (2008), which determined that the use of sexual violence as a
The resilience of Nadia Murad
The aspirations for accountability of terror groups’ use of sexual violence, healing, and peace must be translated into a powerful force that would determine the substance of conflict resolution.
It is by no means a superficial account of an important part of history. A review of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah’s Reflections on Kashmir, authored by Nyla Ali Khan
Sheikh Abdullah was a tall man – a towering personality 6 feet 4 inches in height – who stood out prominently amongst his peers and contemporaries.
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