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A focus on financial compensation for subjects of ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ overshadowed the need to examine storytelling conventions and creative practices in contemporary documentary filmmaking.
Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.
This announcement by U.S. authorities could have potential ramifications for Indian politics, both at home and abroad, and could spur separatist activities in the Sikh diaspora.
Negotiating global progress on climate change involves walking a fine line, as a former UN official explains.
The lockdown gave some men a chance to increase their control and coercion of women.
Reports of an alleged Indian plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist in the United States could undermine India-U.S. relations and both country’s efforts to counter China’s growing influence.
Members of diasporas may choose to identify with multiple homelands and host countries over time.
Across cultures, death rituals give mourners a chance to grieve. But they also offer one last opportunity to help the deceased as they transition to the next stage of existence.
India is far from posing a threat to American power the way China is now. But if the West elevates India at China’s expense, it will eventually have to contend with Indian challenges.
A survey of over 600 teens and young adults across India found boys are more politically engaged than girls and also less aware of the barriers women face to becoming active in politics.
If it turns out India was involved in the death of a Sikh activist in Canada, it should be regarded not only as an extrajudicial killing but also as an act of state terror.
More efforts are needed to restore railways in Nigeria. It was a mainstay of the country’s economy in years gone by.
Arundhati Roy’s prosecution is just one of a series of actions by Narendra Modi’s government against its opponents – including journalists, activists, students and opposing politicians.
India’s secessionist movements represent an existential crisis threatening everything India has worked towards for the past 76 years.
Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.
This adaptation is set in Bengal in 1899, where rumours that the British Empire’s plans for partition have spread.
Today there are few countries in the Indo-Pacific which share so much in common, in both values and interests, than India and Australia. Andrew Charlton’s new book examines the possibilities.
The government’s use of the Hindi word for ‘India’ revives debates over whether Hindi should be the national language – and reopens some old wounds.
The G20 has its critics, but an expert on international politics explains why it still performs a useful function – particularly in this period of great geopolitical divisions.
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Adelaide
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Acting Director, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Host of The Anthill Podcast, The Conversation
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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UNSW Sydney
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Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Sustainability, Azim Premji University
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
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Professor, Department: Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
