Video: Why do people in power get away with making unscientific and ridiculous statements?
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India: Tejal Kanitkar debunks everyday obscurantism
16 January 2018 -
India: CFD statement on Press Conference of four Supreme Court judges
14 January 2018Statement released in New Delhi by Citizens For Democracy . . . "The four senior most judges of the Supreme Court have done a singular service to the nation by highlighting their concerns by way of the Press conference. It is obvious that their main purpose was to warn the nation against the dangerous drift towards arbitrariness and questionable procedures adopted by the Chief Justice of India which adversely impact the administration of justice."
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Video: North Korea is "the most dangerous crisis since the Cuban missile crisis" says nuclear expert Zia Mian
11 January 2018 -
Tariq Ali writes about Tassaduq Sohail and the Partition of India
11 January 2018In October, soon after the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence and the partition of the subcontinent, the Pakistani painter Tassaduq Sohail died in Karachi. The anniversary was celebrated with dazzling military displays: the centrepieces in both Delhi and Islamabad were nuclear missiles. Partition is history now, tales grandparents tell, but for Sohail and others who experienced it first-hand, the memories have never lost their force.
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Murderous Majorities | Mukul Kesavan
11 January 2018The ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya is a particularly vicious chapter in a long history of majoritarian nationalism in South Asia. Unless that history is acknowledged and its legacy contested, more tragedies lie in store.
