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
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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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
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
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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