By Ravina Banze and Irfan Bashir Baby Daya was eight months old when she was diagnosed with Biliary Atresia. Her stomach had swollen to the extent that her mother feared it would burst. The veins of her abnormally bloated stomach were visible, and her pale yellowish eyes narrated a story Read more…
On May 19th, 2020, a 12-hour gunfight raged between the Indian security forces and two militants in the NawaKadal area of Srinagar in Kashmir. Two militants were killed while three CRPF personnel and a policeman were injured during the encounter. Within a few hours, twenty-one houses were destroyed in the Read more…
TW: The article contains references about sexual and physical violence in Kashmir. On the night of February 23, 1991, from 11:00 pm to 9:00 am, at least 53 women, from a physically challenged 13-year-old girl to an 80-year-old woman, were gang raped by the battalion of 4th Rajputana Rifles of Read more…
“I wouldn’t wish life in Cell No. 3 of Tihar Jail on my worst enemy. Locked up in a 10×10 foot dark cell, I was forced to sleep on the hard cement floor, my head inches away from the latrine. On my first night, my skin crawled at the stench Read more…
Much debate has surrounded the rise of authoritarianism across the globe. Be it the election of right-wing extremist Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of India in 2014, the election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America in 2016, or the rise of Read more…
Sanity comes from the Latin word Stanitas which roughly translates to ‘Health and Wellness’. Simply put, the meaning of sanity is a healthy person, and insanity equals unhealthy. There are different ways to interpret sanity. The type of sanity I’m talking about is the well-being of the individual. Their ability Read more…
Today, the world doesn’t face a wealth crisis but rather an income inequality crisis. Simply put, wealth is unequally distributed.
Pesticides, in their modern form and perception, are any substances or chemical compounds utilized in pest management of any kind. Until the agricultural revolution, pesticides took the form of natural sulfur compounds or smokes to fight mildew and blight, after which saw the use of industrial by-products (i.e. nitrophenols, petroleum Read more…
Across the globe, online crowdfunding has allowed people to raise funds to pay for personal emergencies, provide aid to developing countries, support social justice and democratic movements, sponsor technological innovations, support educational initiatives, build orphanages, and fight legal battles— the list goes on. Online crowdfunding has emerged as one of Read more…
By Irfan Bashir and Ravina Banze Currently, the world is on the verge of creating a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market. In the future, the major drivers of the crowdfunding market will be artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain technology, better internet access, and the proliferation of social media platforms. As technology allows for Read more…