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The Sapient Party is a welcome addition to the diversity of American democracy. The party’s rise is a manifestation of growing frustration of minorities and communities of color with the Republicans and Democratic parties' political bureaucracy which offers little political space to the ethnic minorities.
November, 2014
July, 2014
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15 July
Malala: The Journalistic Ethics of Source Well-being
Malala’s security was not an issue as long as the poor child served the editorial interests of the elite media outlets.
March, 2014
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2 March
India’s Forgotten Cotton-picking Children
‘Almost half a million – mostly dalit and adivasi – Indian children are working to produce cottonseed. Around 200,000 of them are below 14 years. This is one of the shocking results of the new study “Cotton’s Forgotten Children” by India’s long-term expert on the issue, Dr Davuluri Venkateswarlu.’
February, 2014
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9 February
Inside the Pashtun Mindset
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani Pashtun teenage women education campaigner, continues to receive honors since being attacked by the Taliban in her hometown of Swat last year. This week, Britain’s prominent contemporary portraitist Jonathan Yeo unveiled a portrait of Malala at Britain’s National Portrait Gallery. Days before that she opened a 188 million pound library in Birmingham, a city where she …
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2 February
Reporting from Hell: The Story of Pakistani Journalism
Media in Pakistan entered 2014 under the old threat to journalists’ lives. Caught in bloody crossfire between blind state power and extremist terror, journalism has always been a tightrope walk in Pakistan. Media by default is part of this war for being the sole platform to showcase the bloody drama in newspaper columns and on the airwaves. Last year …
January, 2014
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31 January
Deconstructing Patriotism
It doesn’t take long for some sort of patriotism to escalate into a jingoism of sorts.
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14 January
Know the Risks Downgrading Your Organization’s Value
Organizations that support the culture of short-term compensation tend to induce excessive risk-taking.
December, 2013
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20 December
Pakistan’s ‘Mullah Radio’ And The ‘Terror Game’
“Congratulations! you have the honor now”, a sarcastic friend from Waziristan told me in the aftermath of the newly selected chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP — the South Asian nation’s largest terrorist network), Mullah Fazlullah’s announcement to have Dir (a mountainous northwestern region in Pakistan on the border with Afghanistan’s Kunar province) as the new headquarters of the TTP. According …
September, 2013
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29 September
15 Days in Taliban’s Captivity
Ali Khan, 42, is probably the only taxi (cab) driver in the Serene Swat Valley who has a bachelor’s degree in agricultural science. The father of three, Khan had been a truck driver in Saudi Arabia too for a few years. He was one of those few people who did not leave Swat when the Pakistan army launched an …
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22 September
Pakistan: And Extremism Spread, Not That Silently!
Film: Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) Genre: Drama Written and directed by Sabiha Sumar This film is set in a Pakistani village, which is shown as a microcosm of the pangs of separation that Sikh families had to bear when India was divided in 1947 to create Pakistan as a separate Muslim country in South Asia. This is also the …
