Overall, based on how the Manipur situation has been handled, India is already a failed state, and it will remain such if the current government continues to tread on a dangerously thin line. If hope is to be found, it may not be wrong to say that there is still time to retool response approaches, or else the conflict may be extended beyond the current involving groups as the Manipur crisis enters a new phase.
By Augustine R.
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The unwillingness of many leading countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to stand with NATO over the war in Ukraine has brought to the fore once again the term “Global South.” One thing is for sure: The Global South is flexing political and economic muscles that the “developing countries” and the “Third World” never had, writes Jorge Heine.
By Jorge Heine
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It aptly sums up the position now for Myanmar’s military rulers and the resistance fighters being drawn deeper into conflict with each atrocity. They are fighting for the past, present and the future and can’t let go now, writes Tharaphi Than.
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The perspective of Nagas in Myanmar: ‘People of the Forgotten Land’ will give you a lot of information about the Nagas in Myanmar. The significance of ‘reconnecting ourselves’ in order to achieve our ULTIMATE GOAL – One Family, One Naga Nation. There is ‘Hope and Possibilities,’ writes Athong Makury.
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Animist practices are as variable as the peoples and places engaging in such relationships. Indigenous and animist perspectives illustrate that there are many different relationships possible between humans and the world around them, and many environmentalists are finding these alternatives instructive, despite the troubled history of the term, writes Justine Buck Quijada.
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Acts of defiance, big and small, have continued uninterrupted across multiple generations. Women’s activism has been constant, as has their imprisonment. In the past, major demonstrations were crushed, but regardless of how the current protests turn out, they underscore that the headcover issue is not going away – and has the potential to amplify anti-regime sentiments in Iran and abroad.
View More Headcovers have always been political in Iran – for women on all sides
Repeat a supposed fact sufficient times and it will become assumed truth. That seems the case very much when it comes to claims about China’s oppression of the Uyghurs in its western Xinjiang province. Supposedly one million or more Uyghurs have been imprisoned in vast re-education camps with the term ‘genocide’ being frequently used. Even the charge of infanticide has been laid. Not all that is supposed however, is reality.
View More When facts are not necessarily facts. The Uyghurs and China
The U.S. is now considered a “flawed democracy,” according to The Economist’s democracy index. The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but it is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality, writes Kathleen Frydl, Sachs Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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