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India: Heart of Darkness
Alas! We have lost our heart – not to love; but to misogyny, bigotry, and every other form of degraded thinking that an abjectly insecure patriarchal system drills into us day in day out. It is, after all, this very societal ...
Celebrities, Mental Illness and the Public Habit of Interference
One in four people will suffer from a mental health problem at some point in their life. For people living in crisis or war situations, this figure gets much higher. It certainly seems to be higher for celebrities compared to t...
A View On “Voluntourism”
Having written about the dangers of short term volunteering, I found myself in Brazil this summer hoping to do precisely that. The proviso was that I made sure to follow my own advice and thoroughly investigate any volunteer o...
From The ‘Seinfeld Election’ To The Hunger Games Election
This is not, as some media outlets have described, “‘the Seinfeld Election,’ an election about nothing”, yet election news continues to reiterate this conception.
Drought in the Americas: Equal insecurity?
The American media publishes dozens of articles everyday on what has been the worst drought in decades for the state of California. Photos of the changing Californian landscape have appeared in nearly every major news source. T...
30 Years After The UN Convention, Torture Is Still Flourishing
Imagine being beaten, blindfolded, kicked, electrocuted, wrapped in plastic and sexually harassed. For Claudia Medina Tamariz, mother of three, this wasn’t just a nightmare you wake from in the middle of the night. She wa...
