Analysis
Fragmenting Tamil Politics
As Sri Lanka powerfully consolidates under the Rajapaksa-led SLPP, the Federal Party’s long hegemony of Tamil parliamentary politics is unravelling. The parliamentary election results are unsurprising…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 11, August 2020
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A political Commentary: The conspiracy of depoliticization of 1975 creeping in Bangladesh
Against the backdrop of a frightful pandemic the present lull in political activities in the country is understandable though not desirable. Yet the phenomenon of discernible…
Analysis
Covid-19 and the global economy: role of SDGs
The UN's Sustainable Development Goals will become even more significant in the post-pandemic economy The fallouts from the Covid-19 pandemic for the medium to long term…
Analysis
Older voters won’t forgive Trump for COVID
“It is what it is.” Well, Mr. President, the wife of the late David Nagy thinks you are wrong. She is furious at you about the…
Republished
The Covid-19 Miracle of Dharavi
How Asia’s largest slum conquered the coronavirus Could the teeming Mumbai slum of Dharavi contain the answers in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic? It didn’t appear so…
Analysis
Can Biden Break Through Trump’s Base of Hispanic Voters?
The president is polling surprisingly well with Latinx communities. Democrats need a strategy to change that. When Juan Suarez-Rivas was 17, he volunteered to join a…
Situation update
Situation Update on COVID-19, 10, August 2020
Analysis
Art 370, CAA, triple talaq, Ram Mandir are just one cycle of Modi’s ‘permanent revolution’
If the opposition is waiting for BJP's cultural nationalism to subside of its own and material issues to become salient again, it will have to wait…
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Unjust jail reform
ON this day in 1974, Edward Nalon took his own life at a prison in Ontario, Canada, after being jostled between segregation units and solitary confinement…
Analysis
Coronaphobia’ is far more deadly than the coronavirus
The guidance from the World Health Organization on non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) was published last October based on “the latest scientific literature.” Border screenings and closures, internal…
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Where are Nepal-India relations heading?
The foreign policy of the Nepal Communist Party government has been a blanket failure. Nepal-India relations are in an unprecedented gridlock. It belies the much-touted 'uniqueness'…