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Apartheid In Durban: South Africa Gets Armed And Modernised

Agamapar ChadhaAugust 4, 20220

Business for private security companies is booming thanks to south Africa’s crime rate, which is one of the highest on the continent. There are 2.5 million working in personal security, more than the police force and military combined. In Durban, the third most populous city, a quarter of residents are Indian, mostly descended from indentured labourers during apartheid. Those Indian citizens were considered higher in status than  Durban's black, indigenous majority. The Zulus friction between these groups erupted in1949. The Durban riot became the second deadliest event during apartheid 87 black South Africans and 50 Indian South Africans died. The military stamped out the riot after three days, but when apartheid ended, there was no reconciliation for Indians and black south Africans i

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Favelas, Slums Of Rio: An Expedition Through Streets Of Brazil

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 29, 20220

Rio has long allured visitors to its splashy seaside resorts and colourful communities, from Ipanema to Copacabana. However, the spectators watching the Olympics this summer will hear a cultural term that describes other pockets of neighbourhoods surviving — and thriving — within Brazil's second-largest city: favela. Regardless of it being a Portuguese word that is related to criminal activities and penury, these informal working-class boonies are seeing a resurgence as well. Euclides da Cunha, a Brazillian author, once described a "mount Favela" in his work about Brazil's civil war of 1897. Soldiers had stationed on a hill where the thorny favela plant grew in the northeast region and made a temporary mess out of shacks. When some of the soldiers went back to Rio, they settled o...

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Kenyan Police Brutality: Kenya Follows Coloniser’s Steps

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 27, 20220

Ever since Europeans discovered Africa, history has been filled with squalor and suffering. Slavery, rape, and racism were the main features of the colonial land grab and slicing and dicing of colonies owned and controlled by European kingdoms and nations. Though the purge had ended a long time back, both in Africa and the region where their brethren were traded, discrimination reverberates in different forms in different countries in Africa. Kenya, much like other colonies, after more than 60 years of slavery, achieved its independence from the British in 1963. However, this hasn't stopped discrimination from being entirely abolished and has highlighted the Kenyans as the oppressor regarding the populace of Kenya that followers of Islam. Police enforcement and killings of Muslims h...

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The Papuan Conflict: Unknown War That Still Continues

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 2, 20220

The Papuan movement is little known worldwide, with little media covering the situation. As the Russo-Ukrainian conflict captures the attention due to the N.A.T.O and American planning because of domestic and international discrimination, the Papuan tribe's pain is not recognised. It is on the brink of utter submission to its aggressors Indonesia. The conflict is old as the nation of Indonesia and West Papua. In 1961 the Dutch relinquished their control over the Dutch East Indies, becoming Indonesia. The Guineas, later renamed West Papua, were also freed in 1962. However, this independence did not last long as Indonesians took control of the territory and annexed it in 1963. In the form of the U.N., the Western powers decreed the Act Of Free Choice in 1969. This was an election for P...

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Slovakia’s Luník IX Slum : A Smear On Europe’s Clean Sheet

Agamapar ChadhaJune 29, 20220

Europe is considered the pinnacle of human luxury and comfort in lifestyle. However, this projection overlooks or discounts any predicament as part or portion of the citizens' face; some are similar to ones that persist and are magnified when ‘developing’ countries are viewed. Luník IX, dubbed ‘Hell on Earth’, is the largest slum in Europe.It is a neighbourhood in the city of Košice in Slovakia. It is the largest slum/ghetto area in Europe. The community living there mainly consists of Roma people. They are said to originate from migrants from South Asiatic regions and travel to central parts of Europe. Historically, nomadic tribes like the Roma were forced to settle down due to Czechoslovakia declaring nomadism illegal due to the immigration crisis in the 1930s. After being indu...

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Manipuris In India: An Enclave In Nationality

Agamapar ChadhaJune 22, 20220

India as an ethnically and religiously diverse country is prone to differences between people leading to violence, displacement due to violence and discrimination because of the people involved . Prime example is Kashmir which an area covered in news reports  for its religious fervour , border disputes and terrorist attacks lead by islamic terrorist groups. Often overlooked due to religious and political issues in Kashmir, the insurgency in Manipur for freedom of Manipur from India continues to plague the state. Since 1992 various insurgent groups like the People’s Liberation Army (P.L.A.) and the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak ( PREPAK) have killed civilians, army personnel and government officials in the name of freedom from India’s grasp. These include ambushes in legisla

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