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  • Negotiating Multipolarity: India’s Position in BRICS Transformation

    Fareed Zakaria, in his book, ‘The Post-American World’, argues that we are not entering an era of American decline, but rather one defined by the ‘Rise of the Rest’. His central argument is that the world is transitioning from a period of American unipolar dominance, followed by the Cold War era, to one in which…

  • “I Will One Day Live in Iran”: Exile and the Politics of Longing in Marjane Satrapi’s Work

    Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist, filmmaker, and artist best known for Persepolis, has died at the age of 56. Her family told AFP that she “died of sadness” following the death of her husband, Swedish producer Mattias Ripa, in April last year. Later that month, messages posted on her Instagram account included the words:…

  • Algeria and Palestine: How Settler Colonialism Re-engineers Space and Sovereignty

    If settler colonialism is a structure rather than an event, then its most vivid manifestations occur not on the battlefield but in land registers, zoning maps, courtrooms, and cadastral surveys. It is here in those somewhat mundane bureaucratic procedures of governance that colonial power is normalised, routinised and rendered seemingly legitimate. The violent episodes of…

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