Slavery

The pirates of Madagascar

In this posthumous effort, 'Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), Graeber posits, in characteristic fashion, that the Enlightenment would not have happened if not for the pirates around the Malagasy coast.
5 July 2023, 14:47 PM

Navigating cancel culture in the literary world

Cancel culture is best treated as a collective decision to minimise the cultural influence a person and their work have moving forward.
15 April 2023, 12:45 PM

Asia's unacceptable record

Out of the 40 million victims of modern slavery worldwide, almost two thirds—25 million people—are exploited in Asia and the Pacific. Making the region host to the largest number of victims of modern slavery today.
14 November 2017, 18:00 PM

15 lakh Bangladeshis living like ‘slaves’: Report

Over 15 lakh people in Bangladesh are living like slaves with nearly half the population vulnerable to be exposed to it, a report of Australia-based Walk Free Foundation says.
31 May 2016, 08:09 AM

Bill to ban Confederate flag passes

South Carolina's Senate passes a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Columbia.
7 July 2015, 04:31 AM

The sighs of ancestors rock migrant boats

AS many as 8,000 refugees have been adrift in the Andaman Sea lately, some of them stranded for more than two months.
28 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Rohingya family’s dream of a better life dashed

Mohamed Khalim,23,was willing to bring his 20-year-old wife and 3-year-old son to face storm and danger, being starved and cramped with hundreds of others in boat from Myanmar in hope of a better life but his dreams were dashed.
11 May 2015, 05:53 AM