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Aug

2018

Modi-magic Faces Challenge, Time for Survival War

Written by : Sankhadip Das Kolkata, India The faith has died. People reposed, destiny disposed. The faith that Narendra Modi would be the sole rescuer of the nation; the people's trust that Modi was the Messiah who would bless us with achhe din; he was the leader who would put an end to all social and political insecurities, corruption and instabilities, is just no more. What is worse, the trust collapsed not because of failure or inefficient delivery. It collapsed because of lack of political will to deliver on promises. The intention came under doubt. The goalposts were shifted as…

Jul

2018

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Say ‘Yes’ to Abortion, Ireland!

Politics & Social

Deboshruti Roychowdhury Illustration: Sagar Mondal ‘If you don't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?’ - Unknown The Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6% just a month back. A referendum held in May resulted in a landslide win for the repeal side. Previously, abortion in Ireland was only allowed when a woman's life was at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality. But why was abortion such a big issue for the Catholic Ireland which had voted on abortion five…

Jun

2018

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What are the Koreans thinking about Reconciliation?

Politics & Social, Popular

Written by Steffy Khanam, Seoul, South Korea Photo : Shutterstock When South Korea hosted the Olympics in 1988, North Korea refused to participate and it also blew up an South Korean Airliner 10 months before the event. But this time, North Korea participated in the events and even sent a women’scheerleaders team. Some might believe that the North Korean team’s participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, in South Korea, might be a sign of reconciliation, but how does South Korean population feel about it? To find out the answer Iactually asked some of the students in Kyung Hee,…

Jun

2018

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Aadhaar Card and Identity

Politics & Social

Debkumar Mitra (Debkumar is a Kolkata-based writer) In the mid-1990s the government of Iceland had granted deCODE Genetics exclusive access to the medical records, some of them hundreds of years old, of the tiny European nation. The move caused a furore inside and outside Iceland with many calling it to be the sellout of the genetic identity of every Icelander. A woman moved the supreme court of Iceland against deCODE and the court ruled in favour of her. The controversy did not die down with it, since then whenever the researchers of the Human Genome Project wanted to study the…

Jun

2018

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The Effect of China’s Ban on Foreign-Trash Import

Economics, Politics & Social

Dr. Trina Biswas Department of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. Contact: [email protected] Over the last several decades the ‘Global South’ countries have been the dumping ground of toxic or hazardous wastes coming from the ‘Global North’ countries. For years China topped the list of Global South countries as the world's top destination for recyclable trash followed by countries like Ghana, India, Philippines, etc. As it is cheaper to export garbage to China and as the country has no equivalent when it comes to waste-management capacity, China has always been thetop destination for foreign garbage or…

Jun

2018

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The Wedding

Politics & Social

Written by : Riaz Quadir photo credit : Shutterstock In the course of history, Empires rise and fall with periodic regularity. But rarely has one falling, passed on the baton to its wayward cousin across the ocean to carry on and complete its original blueprint for the Empire. The Anglo-American experience is that exception. Lately, it had been faltering, but today the project got a special shot in the arm. It was a wedding that (like in the old days) was going to cement the two countries, at least at a people’s level. The groom was a British Prince, the…