The historic #MeToo movement, which gained momentum in 2017, has thrown a spotlight into the men-of-art and their unlicensed abuse of power.
Can We Separate Art From the Artist?
Where There is No Caste: Utopia
Isabel Wilkerson, in her bestselling book "Caste: The Lies That Divide Us," introduces caste as a guiding framework to analyse racial hierarchy in the US.
Review: Pashakhanlou’s Realism and Fear in International Relations
How has fear influenced the realist theory of international relations? In this book, published in early 2017, Arash Heydarian Pashakhanlou sets out to decipher the role of fear in political realism by researching Morgenthau, Waltz and Mearsheimer’s writings.
Facebook Is Now “Meta”: But, What Does It Mean?
Facebook has rebranded itself with a new identity Meta, drawing its name from the metaverse -
a speculative future internet virtual space.
Realism in International Relations
The theory of realism has had a significant influence on the study of international politics, as it appears in practice. Realism is shaped by power politics.
Liberalism in International Relations
Liberalism argues that the concentration of unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to individual civic liberty, therefore must be restrained.
Pegasus and The Rise of Illiberal Democracies
The Pegasus project shows us the governments that rule us could soon be capable of knowing everything about us, while we know nothing about them.
Identity Politics and Its Discontents
Fukuyama's book, Identity published in 2018 addresses the growing threat of identity politics to the liberal democracy in contemporary world politics.
The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A Brief History
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century, with the birth of major nationalist movements among the Jews and the Arabs.
Learning to Live With The Virus
The coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 pandemic has sickened as many as 145 million people around the world. It is raging in several countries like never before.
NFT: what is it? how does it work?
In the early march of 2021, Mike Winkelmann – the digital artist known as Beeple – sold an NFT for a whopping $69 million. Yes, you heard it right.
Myanmar Coup: what is happening and why?
In one of the bloodiest days of protests since the coup d’état that began in early February, Myanmar security forces gunned down more than 114 civilians on March 27, 2021.
What is Blockchain Technology?
Blockchain is a decentralized, distributed public digital ledger consisting of records called blocks - linked to one another using cryptography.
Who Controls My Data?
There is a saying, “when we get something for free, then we end up being the products.” In the age of information, all the clicks we’ve left behind — and would leave behind in future — are being (will be) used to analyze us, rate us, package us, and sell it back to us.
Can We Change the World Without Taking Power?
For Holloway, the central aim of a social revolution is to “make the world anew, to create a world of dignity, a world of humanity, but without taking power.”
Adarsh Badri 