Myanmar/Singapore: On 28 December, Myanmar’s junta will stage what it calls a “general election.” In reality, it is neither general nor an election in any meaningful sense. The generals who seized power in the 2021 coup are not handing back democracy; they are dressing military rule in civilian
When Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012, he promised to rejuvenate China into a “world-class” military power and reinstate their global standing. More than a decade later, his grip is strongest not just on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)— a military
Singapore: It is a reality that many Singaporeans remain startlingly unaware that their Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, often considered the bedrock of national stability and social mobility, are in fact ticking-time clocks with a 99-year leasehold. At the end of that lease, the property does not belong to
Some readers might be wondering how India and Singapore are even connected — the answer is trade. India is one of Singapore’s largest trading partners, and both countries are bound together by the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), which aimed to boost investment, business links, and the free movement of
India: Before Colonisation or even the advent of the Indo-aryan race moving to india, there existed indgidneous tribes to the northeastern states of india, the original adivasis, these group of tribes believe that the land that their ancestors have lived in is holy and worship elements of the soil, the
Singapore: on the morning of 4th January at Goodview Gardens, in the heart of Bukit Gombak. Volunteers in party colours had crossed paths, and what should have been an ordinary day of political outreach spiralled into one of the most talked-about confrontations of this election season. Allegations flew. The ruling
Inequality is measured with a number called the Gini index, calculated by comparing the income or wealth distribution of a perfectly equal society to that of the real world. The area of this gap, multiplied by two, gives us the Gini. A Gini of 1 indicates perfect inequality — one person
It has been only a short time since Sheikh Hasina’s dramatic ousting from power, toppled by an uprising that followed her government’s decision to use lethal force against protestors. The killings of demonstrators and injuries inflicted on countless others — many at the hands of ruling party workers — left
What began six years ago as what appeared to be a simple bureaucratic exercise — updating India’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) — has today spiralled into a full-scale crisis. For thousands of Muslims, particularly those of Bengali origin, the NRC has not clarified their citizenship but erased it. Despite being
Global: Perhaps the best way to understand democracy is to realize that the ideas we deal with in civic life are never as precise as we like to believe. Words like freedom, equality, justice, or even the people carry different meanings depending on who speaks them and who hears them.
Global: Since adolescence, people have been taught to believe that money is scarce and inherently valuable. And while this teaching does have its backing in reality, there is a deeper underlying current worth questioning. Humans work on what can be called objective relativity — a weighing scale that constantly shifts between
Ancient Civilisation: In the beginning of the world, humans did not really know much about it — our primary job was survival and managing to fend for ourselves. Our earliest attempts to understand the world around us, as recorded from the Stone Age, were not philosophy but superstition, fairy tales, and
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