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Poetry

‘Me’: On Gender Constructs

This poem is about attitudes that try to define a particular gender, and how different societal labels lead to subtle discrimination.      I was born, and you looked at your weighing scales. I babbled, she smiled and filled ...
by Minal Ruhela
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Human Rights

Social Experiment Shows Us How Invisible The Homeless Have Become

Would you recognise your wife if you walked by her on the street? What about your sister or your brother? Or your grandmother? A group of people volunteered to disguise themselves as homeless. They then had their unsuspecting r...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Brazil
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A Beleaguered Beautiful Game

Football is turning increasingly ugly but its defects are merely symptomatic of the wider flaws of a modern capitalist society out of control. Football. A divisive topic at the best of times, an obsession for some and an irri...
by Kishan Koria
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Economy

WATCH: The Light Bulb Conspiracy – A Case of Planned Obsolescence

Planned Obsolescence – “A manufacturing decision by a company to make consumer products in such a way that they become out-of-date or useless within a known time period.” The Light Bulb Conspiracy takes us back to the 192...
by Adriana De Sousa Calado
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Politics
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The Turkish Culture of Dissatisfaction

The “Riots” It has been more than three months since the Turkish protests that started as an environmental campaign to stop the Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul from changing into anything other than a protected green area. It ...
by Ozlem Unat
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Sport

Badges, Sport and Culture: Why Sport Unites People

As the IPF prepares to launch a new initiative on politics and sport, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what sport can do for society. The politics of identity has been of interest to me since university, when as part of a mod...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Africa

Focus on Africa: Two mainstream African arguments I have refused to accept

My country Kenya – as is the case with many countries in Africa – is effecting numerous political, economic and social changes to conform to current international best practices. These projects are focused on renova...
by George Gachara
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