Tag: Politics
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Living With The Violence: What “Reconciliation” Really Means In Post-Conflict Communities
In the aftermath of conflict, reconciliation is often the first word to arrive and the last to be questioned. It appears in UN resolutions, donor recovery frameworks, and national transition plans as both a moral necessity and a technical solution, the social mechanism through which societies are expected to move forward once armed violence subsides.…
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Dropping The Olive Branch From the Hand: Who Killed Yasser Arafat?
Under the ever-tightening grip of the Israeli forces that had bombed and raided his offices several times since 2002, Yasser Arafat suddenly fell ill at the dining table and thus started the biggest mystery of the modern-day Middle East. With more than seven countries involved in this mystery, the setting is no less than a…
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Uterus For Money: India’s Medical Scandal Forcing Poor Women To Give Up Wombs
Menstruation is always considered a taboo in India and this problematic issue continues as a large majority of the women population who belong to poor class families, have no educational status and are forced to make choices under constraints that have a long-term irreversible impact on their health and lives. Poor women in India, who…
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No Day Shall Erase You: Unknown Stories of September 11 2001 Attacks
was a watershed moment in the history of the world.
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The Diva On Roads: India’s Love with Premier Padmini
Fiat 1100- D (Delight) or Pad or Padmini, or Bombay’s Kalli-Peeli is emblematic of Indian enterprises that stood firm on their legs during an era of strict licensing and state control. Almost 4-decades long journey of Padmini from the 1960s made it synonymous with a family luxury car in the yesteryears. Today, well remembered as…
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Suvarnabhumi: Tracing the Impact of Mahabharata on South East Asian Countries
The Mahabharata is the cornerstone of South Asian civilizations. It happened and was recorded in the Indian mainland of the time but has a far-reaching impact. Through this FaultLines article, explore South Asia from the eyes of The Mahabharata.
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Collaboration Horizontale: Shaving Heads of French Women Who Romantically Collaborated with Nazis
June 6, 1944, is a significant date in the events that led to the end of the Second World War as the Allied forces comprising of the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain landed on Normandy Beach to liberate France from the German Nazi rule. Village after village, town after town, city after city…
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Widows of Vrindavan: Banished by Tradition, Abandoned by Families
The Mahabharata is one of the two highest revered epics from Ancient India that forms the lifelines of billions of India who see it as source of spiritual fulfillment. Mahabharat chronicles the unimaginable powers of Lord Krishna and his love towards the beloved. The Great Battle did take place in Kurukshetra but to trace Krishna’s…
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Strangling Bulbul: The harrowing experience of Kashmir’s half-widows
Decked by thick forests, a land of lakes holds so many stories that one can barely go through all of them in one life. A place so beautiful in the world yet having wounds so deep that a single cut can bleed out the entire body.
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INFLUENCE OF HUMANISM ON ENGLISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE
The emphasis of literature on humans, things that surround humans-nature, animals, buildings- the individualistic spirit of humans and detailed elaboration of a human’s life came from the Humanist movement that first started in Italy in early 14th Century
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