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The Chinese Surveillance System: An All Seeing Eye Of Malice

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 25, 20220

China is known for its notoriously quasi-democratic autocracy, which occasionally protrudes beyond the nations' border. Domestically, Xi Ping, the Chinese Putin, maintains a deadly grip through its infamous surveillance technology with the use of cameras, infrared sensors, voice recognition software and biometric technology. Other than to control any crimes to maintain the stability of the state, protests and anti-humanitarian acts by the government are not disclosed and kept a secret. The blame for any form of chaos is blamed on anyone who isn't Han Chinese, the majority of the nation. In 2019 footage showed the system in its flesh. The video showed the blindfolded and fettered Uighur Muslims marching to detention centres. The Xinjiang province, which housed the most Uighurs in China e...

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Conversion Therapy in India: A Cure To LGBTQIA+ ‘Disease’ To Appease Cultural Virtue?

Agamapar ChadhaJune 21, 20220

Conversion therapy by the medical profession is an illegal practice to ‘cure’ and covert any sexual orientation of a person to strictly heteronormative. The patient subjugated to these will be ‘cleansed’ from their sexuality which is part of the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A+ section of sexuality. This practice involves physically and psychologically breaking to resolve their ‘abnormal’ tendencies. There are many reasons why this practice continues to prevail in India. From a religious perspective in Islam(14%) and Christianity( 2%), homosexuality is considered a sin. In Indian society, heteronormativity has become a symbol of pride, family honour, and reputation. There is an infusion of heteronormativity with the idea of masculinity and femininity with the underlying aspect of patriarchy in Indian soc...

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Caste: The Linchpin Of Indian State

MalvikaDecember 8, 20210

The constitution drafted by Dr. Ambedkar, endeavors to give a political voice to the disempowered faction of this country. Still, the grim tale of casteism cripples India even after countless years of the constitution coming into effect. Stifling and neglecting the voices of this very section of the society. Recent Pivotal Points of Caste Discourse JJ Gnaavel's Jai Bhim premiered on Amazon prime, staring the Tamil superstar Suriya. Hailed as one of the best to come out of Tamil cinema this year, Jai Bhim does not shy away from showing the brutalities of the system. It shows that at its core the police atrocities and group criminality are very much a caste issue. Dominant castes usually resist the democratization of social relations and status of Dalits by schooling them via subjugat...