Month: May 2019

Who’s Children Are They Anyway: Kurds Divided Over Children Born of Islamic State Rape

Children of women raped by ISIL men will not be accepted into Yazidi community, declares the sect’s faith leaders.   Kurdish leaders claim that the war with IS (Islamic State) is over, but is it? Although, IS has left the Kurdish area but has left behind a conflict for Yazidi women. The Supreme Yazidi Spiritual […]

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1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics , Rebel Music and MTV

Originally posted on Fault Lines:
Music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they’ve been singing about it. And because music styles, human emotions, and social issues are so wide-ranging, 80s songs are too. It was the decade when the future began. Starbucks started…

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Battle of Rhetoric 2019 : It is Modi’s Bofors vs Rahul’s Rafale

In heat of elections, you can expect candidates calling out each other but you would not have seen Prime Minister deteriorating the image of his own office   Rajiv Gandhi, the youngest Prime Minister of the country at age 40 led the biggest political victory. 28 Years after his assassination, Rajiv Gandhi has been remembered […]

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