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Greece and its European Economic Straight Jacket

We’ve experienced some agitated weeks in Europe, with Greece as the center of attention. After the outright No win in the referendum there have been a few surprises, such as the resignation of Greece’s “rock star” finance minister and the recently announced new deal which entails more austerity. What do these events mean? What is…

ByAlejandro ZegadaFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Mehlab is Missing

Everyday in school Hani misses her friend Mehlab and tells the story of their friendship to other classmates. She still remembers her jokes, naughtiness , the dolls that she used to hide in her school bags and how they played with the dolls at her home. Her eyes become nostalgic when she remembers her. She…

ByZahid AbdullaFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Class Struggle

That for many – billions – life isn’t Either easy, a bed, a house furnished, or food in the stomach, it isn’t a laugh an orgasm or smiles its hard, like ground constantly, over centuries, pounded. its sick – like bills that pile up and up and up and up. It smells of unemployment and…

ByQalandar Bux MemonFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Is Kashmir Ready for Independence from India and Pakistan?

Against the backdrop of recently renewed talks between India and Pakistan and the historical baggage it carries with failed negotiations in the last 60 years, it is hard to know how long the current round of congeniality would last. If the dialogue continues this time, for sure Kashmir will be…

ByQaisar AbbasFebruary 9, 20240Comments

A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia

A Case for a ‘Feminist foreign Policy’ for South Asia J. Ann Tickner begins her essay Hans Morgantheau’s Principles of Political Realism: A Feminist Reformulation with “international politics is a man’s world, a world of power and conflict in which warfare is a privileged activity”. In all wars or conflicts it is women, who bear the real…

ByAmit RanjanFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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“Quilts don’t warm hearts”: On the continued Repression of the Baloch

Last week the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif dispatched ten trucks loaded with quilts and shawls worth Rs9.2 million from Lahore for earthquake-stricken areas of Balochistan and talking to media he said that 30 thousand quilts and warm shawls costing Rs92.4 million as 90 more trucks laden with similar supplies would be sent to the…

ByMir Mohammad Ali TalpurFebruary 9, 20240Comments

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Love in Capitalism

Love in CapitalismYou’re all in –but you have nothing to give. You like it that way, though,Maybe. And it works for a while:On credit. When the markets are crashing,It's hard to keep your back straight.And 50:50 becomes too risky a bet. Investment needs consideration. Everything must be accounted for.It needs time and work. But you want it alland you're running out…

ByStephanie BaileyFebruary 9, 20240Comments

A flawed project

yun bhai Nihala, Azaadi tu hai dekhi. Na bhai Prava, ne kha de ne vekhi. Main Jaggu ti sunni assi Ambala ti aaye si. Listen Brother Nihal, have you seen Freedom? No Brother Prava, I haven’t seen it nor eaten it. I heard from Jaggu It has come up to Ambala. —Gurramdas ‘Alam’, A zaadi, 1946.…

ByVijay PrashadFebruary 9, 20240Comments

The Osage Vision in the Words of Agnes Lin

Agnes Lin is a merchandising magnate who grew up in Hong Kong. Starting out as an editorial assistant at the Hong Kong Trade Development Council she moved from merchandising for Swire, to an assistant editor of a garment trade magazine, to establishing Osage Merchandising, her own merchandising business which has taken her across the world.…

ByStephanie BaileyFebruary 9, 20240Comments

Hong Kong’s Generation (Re) Generation

Art in Hong Kong has never had it so good. Aside from being the 3rd largest art market in the world after London and New York in terms of auction sales, complete with Christie’s, Sotheby’s and auction-driven Gagosian Gallery presence in the city, the local art fair has fire-rocketed into the upper echelons of art…

ByStephanie BaileyFebruary 9, 20240Comments