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Reality what does it mean? It is something we create. It is our perception of the world… as we see it, as we speak it… as we feel it. OR, is it something that exists, it is there, a substance, a manifestation borne out of accidents, actions, narratives, optics,...
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The world has witnessed massive upheavals over the past three decades. The exponential increase in globalization has, by extension, triggered a ripple effect on politics, economy, health, innovation, and most importantly, food security and climate change. Then major economic recessions and COVID-19 happened, which planted severe dents across economies....
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On a pedestal is a woman placed and into a deity made – just like Durga with her larger than life persona, the epitome of ultimate feminine power and her innumerable stories of patience, wrath, grace, fortitude, humility and penance. Mythic is what womanhood has been made into; emblematic...
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A Woman’s body… piece by piece, inch by inch, navigated, investigated, desecrated! From the sacrilegious murder of the Greco-Egyptian philosopher, astronomer and one of the first female mathematicians, Hypatia, on the streets of Alexandria by the parabalani – a volunteer militia of monks serving as the archbishop’s henchmen –...
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This editorial is part of Ananke's 10th anniversary special edition celebrating the platform's work. You can view the eZine here. It was a decade ago that the idea of Ananke was born. The birth of a new idea is always a moment of excitement and fear – even...
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Let’s get one thing straight, the Kamala Harris debacle – if one can call it that – is not because of her being a woman. Granted, it may have played a part in the US elections 2024 specifically for the voters, but surely a very miniscule part. This assertion...
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There is not a moment that goes by when the infallible Western media is not ready to judge, patronize or pounce and vilify states across the Global South or in the Middle East about their ‘wrong-doings.’ Be it events of any kind, diplomatic relationships, human rights issue; the list...
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Of late, language or rather the mechanisms and machinations of language have become an incessant obsession. From time immemorial, all tools of language and expression – be it the hieroglyphics of old, Lutheran Pamphlets, censored blank spaces in Pakistani dailies in the 80s, Mahsa Amini’s image, Mahmud Darwish’s lilting...
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How much is too much? What does proportion or a proportionate response entail; especially in the name of justice? There was once a time – which now seems just an illusion – that dialogue was always a better option than an eye for an eye ‘solution’. And this is...
Reality what does it mean? It is something we create. It is our perception of the world… as we see it, as we speak it… as we feel it. OR, is it something that exists, it is there, a substance, a manifestation borne out of accidents, actions, narratives, optics,...
The world has witnessed massive upheavals over the past three decades. The exponential increase in globalization has, by extension, triggered a ripple effect on politics, economy, health, innovation, and most importantly, food security and climate change. Then major economic recessions and COVID-19 happened, which planted severe dents across economies....
On a pedestal is a woman placed and into a deity made – just like Durga with her larger than life persona, the epitome of ultimate feminine power and her innumerable stories of patience, wrath, grace, fortitude, humility and penance. Mythic is what womanhood has been made into; emblematic...
A Woman’s body… piece by piece, inch by inch, navigated, investigated, desecrated! From the sacrilegious murder of the Greco-Egyptian philosopher, astronomer and one of the first female mathematicians, Hypatia, on the streets of Alexandria by the parabalani – a volunteer militia of monks serving as the archbishop’s henchmen –...
This editorial is part of Ananke's 10th anniversary special edition celebrating the platform's work. You can view the eZine here. It was a decade ago that the idea of Ananke was born. The birth of a new idea is always a moment of excitement and fear – even...
Let’s get one thing straight, the Kamala Harris debacle – if one can call it that – is not because of her being a woman. Granted, it may have played a part in the US elections 2024 specifically for the voters, but surely a very miniscule part. This assertion...
There is not a moment that goes by when the infallible Western media is not ready to judge, patronize or pounce and vilify states across the Global South or in the Middle East about their ‘wrong-doings.’ Be it events of any kind, diplomatic relationships, human rights issue; the list...
Of late, language or rather the mechanisms and machinations of language have become an incessant obsession. From time immemorial, all tools of language and expression – be it the hieroglyphics of old, Lutheran Pamphlets, censored blank spaces in Pakistani dailies in the 80s, Mahsa Amini’s image, Mahmud Darwish’s lilting...
How much is too much? What does proportion or a proportionate response entail; especially in the name of justice? There was once a time – which now seems just an illusion – that dialogue was always a better option than an eye for an eye ‘solution’. And this is...
