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"India’s star liberals tap into moral outrage when it is politically expedient, yet become curiously passive when it is not, offering only muted critique of government actions."

Burhan Majid on the paradox of Indian liberal thought on Kashmir:
The paradox of Indian liberal thought on Kashmir and Article 370
DURING A TELEVISION interview with India Today in December 2023, the late jurist Fali Sam Nariman, one of the country’s more prominent liberal voices, defended
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March 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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“Other countries are wising up to India’s tactics and protecting their markets. The real question is who will save Indians from Indian medicines?”

Vidya Krishnan and Arshu John investigate the massive failures of India’s drug regulatory system
The massive failures of India’s drug regulatory system
This story is part of “Pills, Perils, Profits”, a Himal investigative series on Southasian pharmaceutical manufacturing and exports. Reporting for this sto
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March 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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A new article, written with Jason Stearns, in which we the risk of a regional escalation of the Congolese war, how Congolese are stuck between an ineffective government and a predatory neighbour, and particularly how Rwanda is in there for the long haul. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/28/r...
March 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Over the last decade, Fulani civilians in parts of West Africa have been targeted for mass violence after being accused of being jihadists or bandits.

Read how these communities are responding by organizing, fighting, or fleeing in my piece for Megatrends.

www.megatrends-afrika.de/publikation/...
Fulani Responses to Pastoralist Crisis and Mass Violence
Fulani communities in West Africa are being scapegoated for violence perpetrated by certain groups of semi-nomadic herders in response to a...
www.megatrends-afrika.de
February 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Brilliant as ever is Alex de Waal in LRB on Famine Classification in Gaza

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alex de Waal · How to Measure Famine
During the past year, as starvation started to appear in Gaza, Israel has clashed with the United Nations and aid...
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February 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Explainer by the @nytimes.com on the M23 crisis, to which I contributed some thoughts: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/w...
What Is M23, the Rwandan-Backed Group Fighting in Eastern Congo? (Gift Article)
The militia seized the pivotal city of Goma, threatening a new humanitarian crisis in a region that has suffered decades of fighting.
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Yamini Narayanan speaking to Anuradha Sengupta.
Brilliant conversation. Must listen. @anuradhasays.bsky.social #AnimalRights #Animaleft #CowPoliticsIsNotAnimalRights
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The nexus between cow protectionism and dairy capitalism: Yamini Narayanan on bovine politics.
YouTube video by anuradhasays
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November 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Hi friends, Prem here. If you're looking for live updates from Washington as the State Department faces questions on veto-ing *another* UN ceasefire resolution & as the Senate votes on historic bills to block arms to Israel, follow here.

And please boost this for others, so they know where to look!
November 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM