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Disha Ravi and Environmental Activism in India

by HANNA BAJWA Disha Ravi is a 22-year-old climate change activist, recently arrested and charged with sedition. She is a well-known figu...

What is happening in Xinjiang?

by FEE MERALI In 2018, the UN became aware that Uyghur Muslims' possible detainment for "re-education" and other minority groups in the w...

Sino-American Relations: What it once was, what it has now become

ANONYMOUS Sino-American relations have a short history. Yet, it is one full of heavy ups and downs that can roughly be separated into thr...

Explaining Myanmar's Coup d'Etat

By JUDE WILKINSON The Burmese aphorism that Orwell wrote a trilogy on the post-colonial dictatorship of Myanmar - Burmese Days, Animal Fa...

Alexei Navalny: Vladimir Putin’s endless nightmare

By DJEHANE VALLY Over the past few days, diplomats from Poland, Germany and Sweden were expelled from Russia because they took part in wh...

Battle for Academic Freedom in Turkey

by JOE HILL The Rectorate Building at Boğaziçi University Throughout January, peaceful protests, advocating academic freedom, were intens...

Decoding China's Wolf Warrior Diplomacy

Beijing has been fueling nationalist sentiment across China. If you have seen the appallingly blunt tweet on December 3rd, 2020 that cons...

The Covid-19 Dichotomy: The stark differences between the East and the West

By FEE MERALI Across South-Asia, people are returning to life as usual. Pubs and restaurants are open for business, non-essential shops a...

Reflections on Abe Shinzo's Japanese rule

BY ARJUN KAMATH It is fast approaching a month since Abe Shinzo, the longest serving uninterrupted Prime Minister in Japanese history, an...

Michael Palin's North Korea Journal is a real page turner

In the new normal we find ourselves in, it's natural to procrastinate. Which usually leads to binging Netflix. In an effort to correct th...

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