A democratic solution for Kashmir
Disclaimer: I see Kashmir as a part of India as a geographic reality. If it becomes free, I will see it as free. I refuse to cater to bullshit that […]
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Land, loss and lunacy – Niyamgiri’s story of India out of sight
A lunacy drives India’s development. Vast untouched treasures of nature are discarded with scant thought on the altar of a mythical development. Lakhs of development hit Indians are reduced to lives of despair.
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Balochistan: Baloch resistance to all Pakistani designs, including Gwadar Project
Dear Sir, I’m a Baloch human rights activist from Balochistan but, because of media blackout, I am unable to present the ugly picture of human rights abuses that Pakistan Army
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When the going gets tough
A few years ago, I had attended a Group Relations Conference, which basically is a learning environment for learning to sense the unconscious dynamics of a group. Over the five
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Colonialism-in-the-Mind by Gouranga Chattopadhyay – Part 3
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 || Part 6 || Part 7 Such a wide definition of dharma created the ground for tolerance and dialogues across people with different philosophies, faiths and
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What about Balochistan?
The Baloch are sitting ducks. With the sea on one side, and Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they literally have nowhere to go. The world watches in horror as a steady
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Mr. Chidambaram’s war by Arundhati Roy – Part 4
Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 || Part 5 People who had come from the war zones, from Lalgarh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Orissa, described the police repression, the arrests, the
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Disabled by war – how many? Need help from journos
Recently, the BBC published a video report by Karen Zarindast about the number of people disabled by war in Afghanistan. They quote the Red Cross as the source of their figures: Decades
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Some thoughts on Pakistan and Independent Kashmir
When I wrote my post on Kashmiri Pandits, a friend responded privately with a nugget of political insight – before the ethnic cleansing, Kashmiri Pandits did favor independence over merger
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