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 By Asif Noorani
On my three official visits to Chennai, I had nothing much to do in the evenings except catching up with my reading and watching the idiot box in the river facing rooms that I was ensconced in at the Madras Club, until I made some good friends. My one big grouse was that Indian TV channels believed that only bad news about Pakistan was worth covering. But soon after I returned to Pakistan and started watching our own news channels more intently, I found, much to my horror, that our own TV journalists were doing the same not just when covering India but also their own country.
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 By Jon Burnett
The Institute of Race Relations has published the first of three investigations into areas of the country that have experienced increased numbers of racist attacks in recent years. We focused on the city of Plymouth, which, according to the local Racial Equality Council, experiences 50 racist incidents every single day, a city which at one point was earmarked as a BNP stronghold, and which was once described as the ‘city of hate’ because of the sheer volume and ferocity of attacks on asylum seekers. Our report is part of a wider investigation into new geographies of racism, which are emerging in the UK and have become entrenched, in large part, with little or no political acknowledgment.
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 By Sana Saleem
That reporting a rape is an arduous ordeal is a truth that resounds globally. When braving for police investigations, enumerating the ordeal in court and damaging stereotypical media representations become a norm then the argument for a pellucid approach becomes preemptory.
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 By Kuldip Nayar
At times, even negative growth is considered positive. This sums up the outcome of talks between the two foreign secretaries, Nirupama Rao of India and Salman Bashir of Pakistan. The fact that they addressed a joint press conference and did not utter a word of denunciation, even after having taken a divergent stand at the day-long special session on Kashmir, shows that the two countries are beginning to care about each other’s sensitivities.
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 By Nayha Kalia
India’s health minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, set back the nation’s gay rights campaign and fight against HIV yesterday by referring to homosexuality as ‘unnatural’. A few days prior to making this statement at a conference on HIV/AIDS in Delhi, the city celebrated gay rights marking the landmark 2009 High Court verdict that overturned a British colonial law by decriminalising homosexuality.
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 By John Elliott
Could India and Britain jointly revive the Commonwealth, not only to boost their own co-operation, but to form a significant international alliance of English-speaking democracies that span religious and ethnic boundaries? If they did this and brought the organisation’s other 51 member countries into an active association, could the Commonwealth emerge as a new influence in a world that will be increasingly dominated by China and sternly Islamic nations?
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 By Alex Marsh
There is no doubt some soul searching going on at the moment, in part as a consequence of the poor result at the Inverclyde by-election. I’m sure the leadership will seek to dismiss poor election results at this stage in the electoral cycle as to be expected when you’re “in government”. But that can hardly carry much weight, given the Tories aren’t doing anywhere near as badly. It seems to me that rather deeper reflection is needed. Is it clear any more what the Liberal Democrats stand for? Why would someone – beyond the most unwaveringly committed – vote for the Party?
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 By Lord Avebury
We have seen this week an all too familiar and tragic picture unfolding in the Horn of Africa as drought and famine threaten the region. Millions of people are without water and food; families and children in Kenya and Somalia are walking miles a day in search of basic provisions and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stated that refugee camps are hugely overcrowded.
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 By Daniel Elton
It has been widely trailed that the Prime Minister will give a press conference on the scandal engulfing News International this morning. His position - described as being in the sewer yesterday by Peter Oborne in the Daily Telegraph yesterday - demands that he answers certain questions.
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 By Anthony Barnett
So, News International hired an agent to hack into the phone of a missing girl, Milly Dowler. He was encouraged to wipe out messages so that there was space in her message box for further messages that could be hacked, leading her family to believe she was alive and using her phone. In fact she had been murdered.
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By Zachary Latif
As India & Indians (and the rest of South Asians but to an arguably lesser degree) ruminate on caste, which has taken on new life in the “quotas” system and the electorate (separate electorates for backward castes) means that one of the most controversial institutions of Indian society needs to be actively rethought.
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 By Zulfiqar Ali
The news of an elderly woman being paraded naked in Haripur, a remote village in Punjab, is really heart throbbing. Her crime? Her son is accused of adultery with a fellow village woman. The village jury declares her son guilty and the victim (her mother) is paraded around the streets naked, as the punishment. Justice dispensed! I wonder if the chief arbiter had pronounced the same verdict had he been accused of adultery/rape. But that is another story. In our Orwellian world, some people are just more equal than others.
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By Abhirup Bhunia
Globalization is a phenomenon that has evolved over time to assume superseding centrality in the political, cultural and socio-economic lingo. Yet, merely asserting that the world has ardently taken to globalization does not provide a sense of finality; instead it begs a question as to its outcome.
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