Just occasionally, the UK public gets reminded that AIDS isn’t over and done with. Not at home, and certainly not round the rest of the world.
In the pattern of authoritarianism taking over Indian politics since 2014, social movements, activists, and dissidents find themselves at the receiving end of increasingly brazen forms of repression.
The burgeoning movement has spilled forth beyond the confines of the film and entertainment industry. But how far will it go?
Working up public outrage is an art and not all political parties are able to create mass hysteria.
En la crisis de violencia de género deben contemplarse todas sus posibles aristas incluida la violencia económica generada por un modelo de explotación y su vinculación con la agenda de acceso a la justicia social.
During a festival celebrating the Goddess who kills a demon menacing Gods, scores of educated Indian women have unmasked their tormentors and sparked a mini-revolution.
Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English provides an antidote.
The Hindutva storm-troopers would feel let down, having been trained to abuse the secular Hindus, liberals, intellectuals, dissenting writers and a minority community.
The executive is hardly accountable to the legislature, legislators lack tangible power, so notions of the consent of the governed and the will of the people are a farce.
Naipaul always felt that his books would stand the test of time. But which of his books on India, after multiple visits to his ancestral land, will stand that test?
"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
In a country with low press freedom and media literacy, fake news could be a recipe for disaster.
