An opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where only seven and a half thousand out of one million people have national verification cards.
Some 5,000 participants from government, business and civil society have arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The central theme of the deliberations is ‘Towards a Common Future’.
Joining forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our nations.
So, what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of democracy? There has to be a right balance.
One cynic says that after every election, the new Government can spend its first year in uninstalling the statutes erected by the previous regime.
We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland, researcher Marilyn Mayo in the US, and Akanksha Mehta at the University of Sussex.
Families in Modi’s India are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be middle class, with their requirement for degrees and skills training.
To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just communalism.
In India it is the season for rediscovering Gandhi, and everyone from politicians to intellectuals are doing it in their own way.
The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.
