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Culture
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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Central 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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Column
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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