Why Some Minorities In France Vote For The Far-Right Political Party Front National
[All links lead to French-language pages unless otherwise stated] When France’s Eurosceptic right-wing Front National (FN) party topped the country’s polls in last month’s European elections, it had its hardl...
Bare Breasts Breed Bad Boys: Why Censoring Nudity In The Wolf of Wall Street In India Is Beyond Unbelievable
Leonardo DiCaprio, fast cars, mountains of cocaine, nudity that would put Italian statues to shame, and Martin Scorsese: this adequately sums up The Wolf of Wall Street. About five months ago, I watched it in India, and then sa...
Syria: In Search Of Light
With the number of Syrian refugees increasing everyday, it’s easy to see why the situation has been termed the worst refugee crisis of the century. Seven million Syrians have now been forced to flee their homes because o...
Let Colombia End Its Civil War
Colombia has been the host of some of the most extreme and brutal violence in Latin America’s history. The country’s half-century long conflict has taken the lives of almost a quarter million women, men, and children, and d...
London Bucks The Trend, Again.
People living outside the nation’s capital were asked recently what words best describe London to them. ‘Crowded’ was the first, ‘Expensive’ the second, and ‘Cosmopolitan’ the third. The question was part of a ...
The ‘Let Toys be Toys’ Campaign: The fight to end “gendered” toy marketing
The issue of “gendered toys” has plagued the media recently as people are coming out on both sides of the debate to discuss why there seem to be only two aisles at toy stores: “girl’s toys” and “boy’s toys...
