Category: Opinion

‘Of the estimated 12 million African men, women and children who were enslaved and victims of the Transatlantic slave trade, the vast majority were taken to Latin America and the Caribbean.’

‘We can’t always trust nation-states to produce legislation that regulates tech in the interests of free and fair democracy, but we can’t trust Facebook to judge this distinction either.’

‘As with many crises, the devastation served to amplify pre-existing inequalities.’

‘If we remain apathetic towards the mentally ill, we are as guilty as the systems who have failed them.’

‘For too long, farmers have been used as a vote bank and each election cycle has brought with it promises of loan waivers and higher MSPs. Yet what Modi’s new laws envisage is an agrarian sector that can sustain itself without government handouts, as an independent part of the national project that is congruous within a market economy.’


‘While progressives and conservatives alike tend to agree on the concept of development, media coverage often asserts that disagreement over foreign aid all boils down to budget.’