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  • Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia: [Only] One small step forward for LGBTQI+ rights

    Joshua Taylor and Alice Taylor-Kirby

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    Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia: [Only] One small step forward for LGBTQI+ rights By Joshua Taylor and Alice Taylor-Kirby Last month, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Bostock v Clayton County, Georgia. Hailed as ‘a triumph for both the country and the court’ and ‘a simple and profound victory for L.G.B.T. civil…

  • Scrutinizing the Role of Religion in Ineffective Social Distancing in South Asia

    Scrutinizing the Role of Religion in Ineffective Social Distancing in South Asia

    Shuva Das

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    The globally prescribed social distancing measure is still envisaged as the prime option for all nations to curb the spread of novel coronavirus. The level of maintaining of the social distancing by people of any state or region around the world varies with its overall social, political, economic and religious conditions. While it was earlier predicted that South Asia, a highly populated region comprising one quarter of…

  • The Creeping Influence of populism on Indian Foreign Policy

    The Creeping Influence of populism on Indian Foreign Policy

    Prateek Joshi

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    On 16th of June, New Delhi woke up to the shocking news of the brutal killing of 20 soldiers of the Indian Army in a border clash with the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). The recent tensions surrounding India’s borders with China, Nepal and Pakistan took no time in being subjected to emotional debates on India’s…

  • The Hobson’s Choice to Detention in European Transit Zones

    The Hobson’s Choice to Detention in European Transit Zones

    Ritika Goyal and Sankalp Udgata

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    While Europe deals with what will soon turn out to be the worst refugee crisis in history, the ghastly sight of the three-year old Syrian refugee’s corpse washed ashore a beach on the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to enter Europe still reminds us of the futility of our efforts. The vast influx of refugees into…

  • How the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh is purging opposing voices

    How the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh is purging opposing voices

    Rohan Goda

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    The one-year performance of the new Andhra Pradesh administration – led by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) under Chief Minister, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy – allows us a glimpse into the state of affairs. Characterised by quasi-authoritarian measures, repression of dissidents, and subversion of democratic institutions, the state’s condition is a cause of concern. When…

  • The struggle for freedom – Birth of a nation

    The struggle for freedom – Birth of a nation

    Md Nazmus Sakib Khan

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    Imagine yourself in a world, where the officials of the Pakistan Military Forces are enjoying scrumptious Sindhi delicacies, and just on the very opposite corner of the street, an impoverished Bengali child whose parents were mercilessly murdered by the Pakistan Army, is struggling to find a handful of rice for his only meal of the…

  • [Editor’s Words] Hong Kong, COVID-19, and the Future of Global Biotech

    [Editor’s Words] Hong Kong, COVID-19, and the Future of Global Biotech

    Brian Wong

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    It is hard to think of Hong Kong under any other light than in financial terms, especially in light of the looming US-China Cold War. After all, Hong Kong is where “East meets West”; where investors from the West enter China, and where Chinese capital flows outwards and upwards. For many, Hong Kong is the…

  • Is British democracy really under threat?

    Is British democracy really under threat?

    Oxford Political Review

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    What’s been going on?             In late September 2019, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the government acted unlawfully in proroguing, i.e. suspending, parliament for 5 weeks. The supposed reason for this prorogation – to prepare for a Queen’s speech – was deemed by the courts to be insufficient to justify such a long period of…

  • The Sinking Ship of Capitalism: Towards the New Path of Ecosophy

    The Sinking Ship of Capitalism: Towards the New Path of Ecosophy

    Gabriel Levie

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    ‘I am too young to watch pornography. Why am I seeing the planet getting fucked?’. This sentence blazed on a banner held by a 15-year-old during a march for climate change I attended in my home town of Brussels.   ‘Climate Change’: not only does this term capture the rise of global average temperatures, predominantly caused…

  • Why Brexit must happen

    Why Brexit must happen

    William Prescott

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    More than three years on from the 2016 referendum, Britain is still no closer to determining its future relationship with the European Union. This has led increasing numbers of people to advocate—or come out as supporters of—cancelling Brexit entirely either by directly revoking the Article 50 notification or staging a second referendum with the aim…