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How Modi is using TV, film and social media to sway voters in India’s election

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

A different way to address student encampments

A different way to address student encampments

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

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Digging into the colonial roots of gardening

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Why students harmed by addictive social media need more than cellphone bans and surveillance

Why students harmed by addictive social media need more than cellphone bans and surveillance

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation, and Catherine Zhu, The Conversation

The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war

The chilling effects of trying to report on the Israel-Gaza war

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Starvation is a weapon of war: Gazans are paying the price

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation, and Husein Haveliwala, The Conversation

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Indigenous media: From stereotypes to sovereignty

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation; Dannielle Piper, The Conversation, and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ transmits joy, honours legends and challenges a segregated industry

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ transmits joy, honours legends and challenges a segregated industry
‘American Fiction’ is a scathing satire that challenges pop-culture stereotypes of Blackness

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Dannielle Piper, The Conversation

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Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Asylum seekers from Gaza and Sudan face prejudiced policies and bureaucratic hurdles
Palestine was never a ‘land without a people’

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

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Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation

Colonialists used starvation as a tool of oppression
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