India’s Anti ‘Love-Jihad’ Law – Regressive and Misogynist

The paranoia among India’s Hindu Right about ‘Love Jihad’ reflects age old patriarchal notions of women as the property of men. The planter class which had entrusted its wives and daughters to male slaves when the masters went off to fight the Civil War was now in near hysterics over the slightest interaction between white […] Read more

Misery in Myanmar for Rohingya Refugees

The Rohingya people are enduring brutal persecution by the state in Myanmar. The international community must make a stand. Described by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as ‘one of, if not the most discriminated people in the world’, the Rohingya ethnic group are enduring unthinkable persecution at the hands of the Myanmar state. A predominantly Muslim ethnic group […] Read more