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The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction
‘The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF’ demonstrates the power of speculative and science fiction as instruments of the anti-caste struggle in Southasia, and these genres’ connections to the wide traditions ...
Tsering Döndrup’s The Red Wind Howls, his most politically charged work, unfolds against the backdrop of Tibet’s history of erasure and violence – a legacy Tsering Döndrup dares to confront head-on in all his writing.
The uncompromising writer’s English translator reflects on how Tsering Döndrup’s banned ‘The Red Wind Howls’ reckons with China’s erasure of Tibet’s suffering while reclaiming Tibetans’ right to criti ...
Collage showing WHO logo, pharma, pills and tablets, a doctor's stethoscope and protesters, for a story on how Trump's aid cuts have broken global health systems
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Vidya Krishnan
US and Western aid cuts expose global health’s rotten core and leave millions facing preventable deaths from HIV, TB, malaria and more – but the past and the present offer lessons in how to fight back
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