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From the enigmatic Easter Island in the East to the dying Aral Sea in the West, Asia is a land of contrasts: two great civilizations – India and China – deserts, hugely populated areas and a great number of indigenous people struggling for their survival.
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How Xinjiang is holding back an EU-China deal
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
The West that killed Muslim multitudes in the 'war on terror' is now shedding tears about the Uighurs' plight in China
A Beijing-Brussels-Berlin special: that was quite the video-summit.
From Beijing, we had President Xi Jinping. From Berlin, ...
India implodes its own New Silk Road
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
There was a time when New Delhi was proudly selling the notion of establishing its own New Silk Road – from the Gulf of Oman to the intersection of Central and South Asia – to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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India: We cannot expect a harmonious Hindu-Muslim relationship while we accept the inequalities of the caste system
Ajaz Ashraf अजाज़ अशरफ اعجاز اشرف
What Yogendra Yadav, Pratap Bhanu Mehta don’t get about secularism
The bhoomipujan* for the Ram temple in Ayodhya, on 5 August, has spawned a rich vein of analyses on the decline or demise of secularism. Yet, quite surprisingly, the ...
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China to close all live poultry markets gradually
- Xinhua News Agency 新华社
BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- China will close all live poultry markets in a step-by-step manner in a ...
What disaster means to garment workers in Bangladesh
- Supriti Dhar সুপ্রীতি ধর
57 percent survivors of Rana Plaza tragedy have remained unemployed, and the pandemic is now taking ...
Lockdown may contain Covid-19, but it can’t curb the virus of Islamophobia in India
- Priya Ramani प्रिया रमानी
If 2018 and 2019 were the years India communalised rape, 2020 will go down as the year this country ...
Coronavirus: Social distancing a cruel joke for slum dwellers in Himalayan cities
- Joydeep Gupta जॉयदीप गुप्ता
Packed inside tiny homes on metre-wide lanes, slum dwellers facing the Covid-19 pandemic wonder how ...
From 'Shikara' to Shaheen Bagh: a shared tale of pain and longing
- Avijit Pathak अविजित पाठक
These two politico-aesthetic experiences strike at the heart of the violence at play today and offer ...
India, December, 2019: When the Republic found its voice again
- Badri Raina बद्री राएना بدری رائنا
It may not be an exaggeration to say that “we the people” have re-assumed their ownership ...
As protests rage on Citizenship Bill, Is India becoming a Hindu nation?
- Jeffrey Gettleman - Maria Abi-Habib ماريا أبي حبيب
Several people have been killed as unrest spreads to new corners of the country. Many see the passage ...
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