Sonia Sarkar
@sonias26.bsky.social
Global Campus of Human Rights/IFSH Hamburg University (2024-25). Trinity College Dublin (2023-24). Journalist making transition to academia. Soniasarkar26.wordpress.com
I am just so thrilled to win this award -- this is not just an award for a piece of journalism but recognition of the violence against women in the name of "culture" --which is FGM. And this is happening at people's homes and in cosmetics clinics in different cities across the UK!
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Congratulations to Sonia Sarkar from Migrant Women Press, our winner for 2025!
Read her piece here: migrantwomenpress.com/2024/12/03/f...
Congratulations to Sonia Sarkar from Migrant Women Press, our winner for 2025!
Read her piece here: migrantwomenpress.com/2024/12/03/f...
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I am just so thrilled to win this award -- this is not just an award for a piece of journalism but recognition of the violence against women in the name of "culture" --which is FGM. And this is happening at people's homes and in cosmetics clinics in different cities across the UK!
In Laos, the tiny Communist country tucked between Thailand and Vietnam, Christians have been facing religious persecution. Despite guaranteeing religious freedom on paper, the Communist authorities heavily monitor the religious activities of Christians. religionunplugged.com/news/christi...
Tiny Communist Country Oppresses Minority Christians
(ANALYSIS) In Laos, Christian burials are barred from cemeteries, churches have to find improvised worship spaces, and Christians are often pressured to engage in activities that go against their reli...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
In Laos, the tiny Communist country tucked between Thailand and Vietnam, Christians have been facing religious persecution. Despite guaranteeing religious freedom on paper, the Communist authorities heavily monitor the religious activities of Christians. religionunplugged.com/news/christi...
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Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
Congratulations to the writers of our shortlisted pieces: Sonia Sarkar, Alannah Francis, Alia Waheed, @shantidas.bsky.social, Anna Moore, @lucymorgan.bsky.social and @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social
My piece: India's reckless blood transfusion system is exposed once again as five thalassemic children contracted HIV through blood transfusion. www.bmj.com/content/391/...
HIV: Five children in India are infected from contaminated blood donations
Five children with thalassaemia have tested HIV positive after blood transfusion at a government hospital in the state of Jharkhand, east India.
The state government has suspended three officials and...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My piece: India's reckless blood transfusion system is exposed once again as five thalassemic children contracted HIV through blood transfusion. www.bmj.com/content/391/...
My latest: As protests against the authoritarian regime of President Aleksandar Vučić entered the tenth month this September, ordinary Serbians express their discontent towards Serbian Orthodox Church for not showing enough support towards them. religionunplugged.com/news/serbian...
Serbian Church Under Fire For Backing Authoritarian Regime
The Serbian Orthodox Church, which represents 85 percent of this Baltic country’s population, has been largely urged the student protestors to “go bak to their classes” and not protest.
religionunplugged.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My latest: As protests against the authoritarian regime of President Aleksandar Vučić entered the tenth month this September, ordinary Serbians express their discontent towards Serbian Orthodox Church for not showing enough support towards them. religionunplugged.com/news/serbian...
I write: As Bangladesh grapples with political instability for a year since Hasina was forced to flee the country following mass student-led protests in 2024, Islamist radicals have been trying to make a comeback in this South Asian nation of 173 million people. religionunplugged.com/news/islamis...
Is Islamist Terrorism Making A Comeback In Bangladesh?
(ANALYSIS) As Bangladesh grapples with political instability for a year since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country following mass student-led protests in August...
religionunplugged.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I write: As Bangladesh grapples with political instability for a year since Hasina was forced to flee the country following mass student-led protests in 2024, Islamist radicals have been trying to make a comeback in this South Asian nation of 173 million people. religionunplugged.com/news/islamis...
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How Trump's think tank allies are exporting illiberalism
https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/how-trump-s-think-tank-allies-are-exporting-illiberalism
https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/how-trump-s-think-tank-allies-are-exporting-illiberalism
How Trump's think tank allies are exporting illiberalism
US conservatives build networks to unite nationalists against liberal democracy
asia.nikkei.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
How Trump's think tank allies are exporting illiberalism
https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/how-trump-s-think-tank-allies-are-exporting-illiberalism
https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/how-trump-s-think-tank-allies-are-exporting-illiberalism
My piece @asia.nikkei.com on how American think-tanks linked with Trump administration have been mobilizing the far-right globally through conferences --from France and Hungary in Europe to India and Japan in Asia. #farright #ThinkTanks #CPAC #NAtcon
September 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
My piece @asia.nikkei.com on how American think-tanks linked with Trump administration have been mobilizing the far-right globally through conferences --from France and Hungary in Europe to India and Japan in Asia. #farright #ThinkTanks #CPAC #NAtcon
August 15 2021 is one such date that I will remember as long as my brain continues to retain my personal experiences. This was the day when Taliban took over #Kabul. Replugging my piece that I wrote from Kabul after the fall for SCMP #Afghanistan soniasarkar26.wordpress.com/2021/08/17/a...
Afghanistan conflict: I watched Kabul fall to the Taliban
The Taliban’s lightning advance on Kabul caught not only the US off guard, but ordinary Afghans too Sonia Sarkar was on the ground as the mood went from normal to frantic in a matter of days. On Th…
soniasarkar26.wordpress.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
August 15 2021 is one such date that I will remember as long as my brain continues to retain my personal experiences. This was the day when Taliban took over #Kabul. Replugging my piece that I wrote from Kabul after the fall for SCMP #Afghanistan soniasarkar26.wordpress.com/2021/08/17/a...
My piece: UNICRI-Vox Pol report stated the growing online dominance of the “right-wing violent extremist form of Hindutva ideology”. Hindu extremists have been pushing the global Hindutva project & learning new strategies from extremist counterparts elsewhere. www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/on-c...
On cyber Hindutva
In a democracy, authorities must crack down on extremism regardless of their ideology. Is it unreasonable to expect this from those who claim to be leading the ‘mother of democracy’?
www.telegraphindia.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My piece: UNICRI-Vox Pol report stated the growing online dominance of the “right-wing violent extremist form of Hindutva ideology”. Hindu extremists have been pushing the global Hindutva project & learning new strategies from extremist counterparts elsewhere. www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/on-c...
The homegrown far-right in Singapore,Japan,India & China’s autonomous Mongolian region is identifying with white supremacy, getting inspired by the ideology & forming transnational alliance with their white counterparts in the west. I write @gnetresearch.bsky.social gnet-research.org/2025/08/01/t...
Transnational White Supremacy: Digital Violent Extremism from West to East - GNET
gnet-research.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The homegrown far-right in Singapore,Japan,India & China’s autonomous Mongolian region is identifying with white supremacy, getting inspired by the ideology & forming transnational alliance with their white counterparts in the west. I write @gnetresearch.bsky.social gnet-research.org/2025/08/01/t...
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Earlier this year, a #Singaporean was detained for planning a violent attack on minorities after being radicalised by Western, #FarRight extremist ideologies. @sonias26.bsky.social explores how these violent ideologies have been influencing homegrown radicalisation in the East.
Transnational White Supremacy: Digital Violent Extremism from West to East - GNET
gnet-research.org
August 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Earlier this year, a #Singaporean was detained for planning a violent attack on minorities after being radicalised by Western, #FarRight extremist ideologies. @sonias26.bsky.social explores how these violent ideologies have been influencing homegrown radicalisation in the East.
India's latest Operation Sindoor was laden with patriarchal symbolism – and that the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP failed to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment, even at a time of national crisis. My piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social theloop.ecpr.eu/the-patriarc...
The patriarchal symbolism of India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’
In May 2025 India launched a military assault against Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men. Putatively carried out in the name of avenging the victims' widows, Sonia Sarkar argues t...
theloop.ecpr.eu
July 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
India's latest Operation Sindoor was laden with patriarchal symbolism – and that the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP failed to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment, even at a time of national crisis. My piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social theloop.ecpr.eu/the-patriarc...
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🪖 In May, #India launched a military assault against #Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men.
🗣️ @sonias26.bsky.social argues that this was laden with patriarchal #Symbolism & that the ruling #BJP failed to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment. #Modi
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🗣️ @sonias26.bsky.social argues that this was laden with patriarchal #Symbolism & that the ruling #BJP failed to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment. #Modi
👉 ow.ly/2XFV50WiRbm
The patriarchal symbolism of India’s ‘Operation Sindoor’
In May 2025 India launched a military assault against Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men. Putatively carried out in the name of avenging the victims' widows, Sonia Sarkar argues t...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🪖 In May, #India launched a military assault against #Pakistan to avenge the terrorist killings of Hindu men.
🗣️ @sonias26.bsky.social argues that this was laden with patriarchal #Symbolism & that the ruling #BJP failed to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment. #Modi
👉 ow.ly/2XFV50WiRbm
🗣️ @sonias26.bsky.social argues that this was laden with patriarchal #Symbolism & that the ruling #BJP failed to conceal its anti-Muslim sentiment. #Modi
👉 ow.ly/2XFV50WiRbm
Who is creating unrest in Nepal?Why are India's Hindu nationalists wanting to restore monarchy and Hindu statehood in Nepal?Why are posters of Hindu nationalist leader Adityanath seen in a pro-monarchist rally in Kathmandu? My analysis: www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-sa... #Nepal #India #Hindutva
A saffron shadow
Anti-monarchists argue that India, as one of the largest democracies in the world, should help Nepal to strengthen its democratic institutions and not conspire to threaten their existence
www.telegraphindia.com
June 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Who is creating unrest in Nepal?Why are India's Hindu nationalists wanting to restore monarchy and Hindu statehood in Nepal?Why are posters of Hindu nationalist leader Adityanath seen in a pro-monarchist rally in Kathmandu? My analysis: www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-sa... #Nepal #India #Hindutva
Why Muslims In War-Torn Kosovo Are Turning To Catholicism? Why are Kosovo’s politicians not quite rattled by this? Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious place. My piece: religionunplugged.com/news/why-are...
Why Muslims In War-Torn Kosovo Are Turning To Catholicism
(ANALYSIS) The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethn...
religionunplugged.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Why Muslims In War-Torn Kosovo Are Turning To Catholicism? Why are Kosovo’s politicians not quite rattled by this? Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and multi-religious place. My piece: religionunplugged.com/news/why-are...