How India’s Dalit women are being empowered to fight endemic sexual violence
The conviction rate for rape cases by India’s “untouchable” women stands at 2 per cent, compared to 24 per cent…
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My passage to India, astrology versus Ebola and Ed’s “respect” for White Van Man
Peter Wilby’s First Thoughts.
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Letter from Beijing: Inside the private schools educating China’s elite
In recent years the number of private schools catering to Chinese nationals has grown rapidly. A Chinese-owned chain offering a…
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Life as an orphan in a plastic tent city, bombing Iraq (again) and keeping my “Juslim” name
Jemima Khan writes from Jordan on the Syrian refugee crisis.
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In Hong Kong, people have never had the vote – but that won’t stop them demanding democracy
Occupy Central with Love and Peace, the student-led pro-democracy demonstration, has turned the city’s traffic-filled roads into an ocean of…
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Hong Kong protests: Beijing is now face to face with universal suffrage promise
The people of Hong Kong are making their voices heard as never before.
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In the slums of Manila, inequality is so bad that the worst off have no chance to protest
Independent filmmaker Paul Roy recounts his experiences in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
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Inside jobs and Israeli stooges: why is the Muslim world in thrall to conspiracy theories?
The “We’ve been lied to” argument goes only so far. Scepticism may be evidence of a healthy and independent mindset;…
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