Urvashi Butalia visits a friend in Tokyo who is besieged by Japan’s punitive new recycling legislation. Back in Delhi she wonders if the Indian approach to rubbish is any better.
Filed in: India
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Israel: time to divest
Nobel Peace Prizewinner Archbishop Desmond Tutu argues that it is time for us to treat Israel as we once treated apartheid South Africa.
Filed in: Israel
- Desmond Tutu
- November 4, 2010
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An Indian by any other name
Is an Indian living in the US worth more than one living in the Gulf or, horror of horrors, Pakistan? Urvashi Butalia and the fundamentalist Indian Government are at odds.
Filed in: India
- Urvashi Butalia
- November 4, 2010
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Nigeria’s sharia furore
Nigeria’s sharia furore explained by Ike Oguine.
Filed in: Nigeria
- Ike Oguine
- November 4, 2010
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(S)word play
Urvashi Butalia reflects on how language is distorted and transmuted in war.
Filed in: India
- Urvashi Butalia
- November 4, 2010
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Cuba Hurts
Cuba hurts - and so does Eduardo Galeano, following the spate of executions and arrests in Havana.
Filed in: Cuba
- Eduardo Galeano
- November 4, 2010
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The Perfect Wife
mail-order Russian brides are all the rage in Beirut, according to Reem Haddad.
Filed in: Lebanon
- Reem Haddad
- November 4, 2010
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How much fraud is too much fraud?
Elections in Africa can be fraught and fraudulent – but are still better than the alternative, says Ike Oguine.
- Ike Oguine
- November 4, 2010
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Hot and bothered
Urvashi Butalia on how Indians, rich and poor, cope with the crushing summer heat.
Filed in: India
- Urvashi Butalia
- November 4, 2010
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Small arms, big trouble
Why did scrap metal in a Delhi junkyard start exploding, killing some workers? Urvashi Butalia investigates the mystery and finds the world’s wars are affecting lives far removed from the battleground.
Filed in: India War and Peace
- Urvashi Butalia
- November 3, 2010
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War on corruption
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is clamping down on corruption. So why are ordinary Nigerians less than enthusiastic? Ike Oguine explains.
- Ike Oguine
- November 1, 2010
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