Tag Archives: India

Listen — Iran: The protests, Islam and women

Mohamed El-Doufani writes: Iranian Read more [...]

Horizon scanning in Afghanistan

Islamic State Khorasan Mohamed El-Doufani* writes: The Read more [...]

Israeli authorities brand Indian Jew genetically inferior

Jacob - Indian Jew described as genetically defective by Israeli Jews

Marianne Azizi writes:
Jacob is Read more [...]

Save our planet: Worldwide air pollution is making us ill

Industrial pollution

Graham Peebles highlights the magnitude of the problem of air pollution that is poisoning many people, especially the poor, and underlines the fact that the responsibility for resolving it lies with each one of us. Read more [...]

Sharing and ending food waste – the keys to ridding the world of hunger

World hunger

Graham Peebles highlights the relationship between the inequality and wastage inherent in the market-driven economic model on the one hand, and hunger on the other, and advocates an alternative system based on community and sharing. Read more [...]

Dalit women and village justice in rural India

Dalit women

Graham Peebles details examples of the injustice suffered by Dalit – “Untouchable – women in India, where corruption and an endemic failure to implement the law result in untold prejudice and discrimination against millions. Read more [...]

Israel’s new Asian allies

China loves Israel

With Israel turning to Asia to compensate for its loss of Western support, Jonathan Cook wonders how long it will be before it starts replying on a Chinese veto at the UN. Read more [...]

The tragedy of being a girl in India

Plight of girls in India

Graham Peebles examines the plight of girls in India, the victims of dysfunctional cultural practices that had been manipulated during the colonial era and, though outlawed, still result in infanticide and murder. Read more [...]

India’s space madness amid astronomical poverty 

India's space mission

Graham Peebles questions the justice and wisdom of India’s ruling elite, which spends USD1 billion annually on its space programme while India has the world’s highest number of people practising open defecation. Read more [...]

Watch: Why farmers are killing themselves in India

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