The fact of the matter is foreign aid policy is more political than personal. Often, even if a foreign country has high levels of extreme poverty, other nations will reduce aid if the foreign country’s political leaders act contrary to the prevailing will of the donating country. Read More…
The threshold for military action that violates international law should be high indeed and must at a minimum be actually capable of helping Syrian citizens who are victims of civil war. Read More…
Heartbroken over not having recorded her grandmother’s story, Guneeta Singh Bhalla established the 1947 Partition Archive in 2010, which aims to document stories from the Indian-Pakistan partition. Read More…
“Art for Partition,” an event held Saturday in downtown Berkeley, sought to raise funds for the preservation of stories from survivors of the Partition of 1947 in South Asia. The Partition of 1947 involved the division of colonial India into the sovereign states of Pakistan and India after the dissolution Read More…
Once upon a time in a land not so far away, there was a vast empire whose arms stretched across the globe. Although it was not a monarchy, its political class ruled with the wrath of kings and queens. They conquered foreign kingdoms in a hopeless hunt for bogeymen they Read More…