Protests, politics and the ‘un’-social media
The best way to control is to make people mindless. The best way to keep them mindless is to keep them illiterate and unaware. Education is the base of any…
The best way to control is to make people mindless. The best way to keep them mindless is to keep them illiterate and unaware. Education is the base of any…
‘It is therefore in advanced economies’ interest to help poorer countries reduce the mounting risk of little economic fires everywhere. …For starters, a pre-emptive multilateral debt-restructuring and relief initiative is…
The murder of George Floyd in May this year triggered uprisings against and conversations about racism in countries across the world. It felt as though the Black Lives Matter movement…
Judicial activism, which germinated in the premises of the Supreme Court of India during Mid 1970, soon graduated into a sort of imperialism. Judicial Imperialism by Labour Courts, Labour Appellate…
Twenty months before Americans vote on re-electing Donald Trump, conservative supporters are already slapping many of his progressive 2020 challengers with a resurgent political taint: socialism. The word has been…
Judicial activism, which germinated in the premises of the Supreme Court of India during Mid 1970, soon graduated into a sort of imperialism. Judicial Imperialism by Labour Courts, Labour Appellate…
The recent visit of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar to a hospital in Lahore has created a storm on social media, with many opining that this is not the domain of…
WHEN considered as an agent of social, economic or political change, activism possesses an anti-status quo value. Nonetheless it can also entail efforts that are meant to impede a change…
Facebook and other social networks are making it easier for anti-mining activists to derail projects, helping them get their message out and organise more quickly against an industry that is…
As internet use in urban centres and amongst youth booms, Afghanistan is set to host its first-ever social media summit, with organisers promoting the websites as democratic tools for engaging…