Across South Asia, the difference between prejudice and collapse is not the existence of hate. Every society has it in varying shades. The difference is whether the majoritarian state internalizes hate against the ‘other’, whether FIRs get diluted, trials get delayed, mobs get garlanded and impunity driven violence against minorities becomes low-cost. When that happens, the poison is not outside the system. It becomes the system.
And perhaps this is precisely what many readers, particularly South Asian readers navigating fractured contemporary lives, have been missing without fully realising it: fiction willing to slow down long enough to notice the fragile, passing intimacies through which people continue surviving one another.
Thurman said that Tibet was not an individual nation-state question but something that goes far beyond that. “It is not about a people yearning for freedom from an invading state. It is about a very valuable society struggling to keep its centuries-old tradition of intellectual evolution alive.” He said that while he was hopeful that the problem would be resolved soon, “and during His Holiness’ lifetime,” it was hard to put a timeframe to it.
The perceived push from a political leadership that has roots in Gujarat, the split in the locally rooted Shiv Sena that was engineered, the resentment it brewed among ordinary citizens and the history of Maharashtra -- which was born on May 1, 1960 after a bitter struggle that split the erstwhile Bombay State into two distinct linguistic states of Maharashtra and Gujarat -- are all complex and contributory factors to the evolving political unrest in middle-class Mumbai.
Bangladesh stars Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman appear to have played their last matches in the Indian Premier League following the Bangladesh Cricket Board’s refusal to issue a no-objection certificate to the duo for the remainder of the season
Vogue magazine announced has announced that Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani education activist Malala Yousufzai will star on British Vogue's July 2021 cover
Seven South Asian women - two each from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan and one from Sri Lanka - have been selected to be mentored as part of the ICC (International Cricket Council) 100% Cricket Future Leaders Programme beginning this month to support emerging female talent in cricket
For Sajid Haji Ababakar, an ordinary fisherman from Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, the last Sunday was perhaps the luckiest day of his life. A fish, he caught last week, fetched him a whopping $46,500
The Indian cricket board on Saturday decided to organise the remaining matches of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) - the cricket world's premier T20 league - in Dubai later this year
A historical milestone was achieved when the digitally restored image of the earliest surviving Hindu painting from the 6th century was unveiled for the world to see
The International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced the playing conditions for the ICC World Test Championship Final featuring India and New Zealand at the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton next month
Bangladesh moved atop the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League by winning the second game of their three-match ODI series against visiting Sri Lanka
Professor CNR Rao. recipient of India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna, has received the International Eni Award 2020 for research into renewable energy sources and energy storage, also called the Energy Frontier award. This is considered to be the Nobel Prize in Energy Research
A lawmaker in Pakistan submitted a draft law to the Sindh Assembly demanding compulsory marriage for people aged 18, reported Pakistan Today
An honest Indian-American convenience store owner in the small US town of Southwick in Massachusetts gave back to a woman customer a USD 1 million worth lottery ticket after she had discarded it as "it didn't look like a winner"
A miniature sculpture of Lord Buddha was discovered at Alembi in 76 Badagabettu village, near Udupi in Karnataka, IBNS said quoting agencies
US-based Indian singer Joy Goswami has been instrumental in raising funds for various social causes
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a legendary cricketer and former World Cup-winning captain, has ordered immediate steps for the revival of local cricket by starting age-specific and school and college tournaments to hone fresh talent
Cricket great Sir Richard Hadlee believes it's too difficult to declare a favourite in next month's ICC World Test Championship Final between India and New Zealand in Southampton, Englad, but is looking forward to the clash between the two of the best batting and bowling units in the game
