Neelima Mathur

Executive Producer-Researcher-Writer, Mentor & Trainer
  • Politics

    Limited media attention is ruining the Earth

    By Neelima Mathur India-based Executive Producer-Researcher-Writer, Mentor & Trainer Director of Lakeside Doc Festival NEW DELHI: It’s amazing how we talk of Climate Change like a new phenomenon. Floods, droughts, cyclones, melting glaciers have been staring in our face for decades. We also tend to equate global warming as climate change.…

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  • South Asia

    Data Can Of Worms

    Clearly, matters have gone much beyond worms, viruses and trojans that unexpectedly make our computers crash. It is all about that little tick mark against ‘I Agree’ to terms and conditions that probably no one reads. That is all it takes for data to spiral into phenomenal algorithms that we…

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  • South Asia

    KIM – INDIA’S POSTER BOY

    In December 2017, a peculiar development made the headlines of Indian national news. The face and name of North Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, came up bold and strong on posters. Such posters belonged to the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), a party prominent in the southern Indian state of…

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  • East Asia

    The Son Has Turned Black

    There is an interesting theory about China: that it follows a policy of de-securitisation particularly for water related issues. It means, China shifts the matter from a security issue towards a political issue. It is happening once again with India and it is China’s way of maintaining a semblance of…

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  • East Asia

    CHANGING GEOPOLITICS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION

      Within a span of less than hundred years, geo-politics is proving that alignments result from need and circumstance. The recent visit of Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, to India fully reflects changing dynamics in what is now referred to as the Indo-Pacific region. A dynamic which could well…

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  • East Asia

    ANOTHER TEST BY NORTH KOREA – HEADING TOWARDS WORLD WAR III?

    One more test…and it will not stop. Kim Jong Un is irreprehensible in his nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile strategy, action…and dreams. The president of North Korea derives immense pleasure from examining his white and silver warheads…and charting the paths ahead for their test and use. The most recent test…

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  • East Asia

    To be or not to be

    The legal process against Park Geun-hye is a noteworthy situation in itself. Not that Presidents have not faced such circumstances before that finally led to impeachment. Even so, the fact that such a situation arises leads to a lot of churning in society. People treasure their democracies and yearn for…

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  • East Asia

    Male and Female Rasputins – Yesterday and Today

    The role of very powerful men and women behind leading politicians is a common story worldwide. Many can give enough material to write a series of books that can actually be bestsellers. The side-stories about Park Geun-hye are somewhat in that league and roused memories of India’s only woman Prime…

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  • East Asia

    Globalisation, Nationalism and the Future

    The Trump era is raising many questions worldwide. It is also becoming increasingly evident that people are looking more within that without their own nation—claiming the need to return to a so-called “nationalism”. Based on this trend, a “clash of civilizations” seems imminent. Few continue to be interested in the…

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  • South East Asia

    Bollywood and India

    Bollywood is like an insignia of India. Whether they like them or not, everyone knows about Bollywood films – replete with melodrama, song, and dance. Facebook posts show strange Bollywood connections. A new Spanish bride dancing to a Bollywood song on a street. German girls doing a Bollywood number on…

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