Author: Priya Saha

Bangladesh foreign secretary Masud Bin Momen is expected to visit India next week to prepare the ground for a trip by foreign minister AK Abdul Momen and to open a new deputy high commission in Chennai. This will be the first high level visit from the Bangladesh side after a long gap and Masud Bin Momen is expected to meet his Indian counterpart Harsh Shringla and other senior officials while in the country during February 23-25, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. Masud Bin Momen will begin his visit by travelling to Chennai to open the new deputy…

(The Hague) – International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings beginning February 21, 2022 underline the critical importance of bringing justice for the Myanmar military’s abuses against ethnic Rohingya, Human Rights Watch and the Global Justice Center said today. The groups released a question-and-answer document outlining recent developments in the case, including the impact of the February 1, 2021 military coup in Myanmar, on the ICJ proceedings. The hearings at the court from February 21 to 28 are for the case brought by Gambia against Myanmar alleging that the military’s atrocities in Rakhine State against Rohingya Muslims violate the Convention on…

Rahul Gandhi, who led the Congress party, in a recently held campaign gathering has claimed that “Hinduism and Hindutva” are “different things” but the ideology of the BJP-RSS is engaged in spreading “hatred in India” with its creed. The BJP in response has claimed that the Congress leadership nurses a “pathological hatred” for Hinduism. Now the question is who represents Hinduism? Brahman Rahul Gandhi or Chaiwallah Modi? I am not qualified to answer this question, nor am I interested. My interest is to address the question of how the Hindutva ideology has become popular in India and what are its…

I got started by conducting different benchmarking exercises to find out exactly what was happening within our organisation. Were we attracting applications from people with diverse backgrounds? Were these applicants getting through to the interviews? Were they then being appointed? What happened next, did they stay and progress within PA? Armed with this data, it was possible to start making the changes needed. One of the first things I discovered through speaking to new recruits is the importance of seeing people with similar backgrounds to themselves thriving within an organisation. I now work closely with our communications team and individuals…

With her organisation, Let’s Talk Mental Health (LTMH), Anusha Chowdhury has been compelling people to talk about mental health and how they can overcome these issues. As an entrepreneur and philanthropist, Chowdhury has carved a successful journey of her by providing value to people in the form of her ventures, for which she was also lauded by Bangladesh’s honourable health minister Zahid Maleque last year. Chowdhury, who is the founder and CEO of Bazar Nao, a unique e-commerce start-up with a USP of providing online credit facilities, has helped over 52,800 families and all her ventures have thrust her forward…

“Deconstruction” is an overused but underdefined slogan in contemporary Christian circles. Its broad range of meaning has contributed to numerous misunderstandings, especially between the fracturing groups emerging from American evangelicalism. On the one hand, the term can be understood pejoratively, referring to a kind of tearing down of “ancient boundary stones” within historic orthodoxy, resulting finally in apostasy. In this case, deconstruction is simply destruction, reducing the Protestant impulse of reformation to demolition. On the other hand, it can signify an honest reappraisal, critically evaluating the various elements of one’s faith rather than settling for an unreflective confession. In this case,…

The year 2021 “saw the worst persecution of Christians in history” — with an average of 16 Christians murdered for their faith every day. The persecution of Christians, which was already horrific, has increased by nearly 70% over the last five years, with no signs of abating. (Image source: iStock) The year 2021 “saw the worst persecution of Christians in history” — with an average of 16 Christians murdered for their faith every day. That observation comes from the World Watch List-2022 (WWL-2022), recently published by the international humanitarian organization, Open Doors. The report each year ranks the top…

On February 8, a speeding van mauled 5 members of a Hindu family to death in Bangladesh in what is believed to be a ‘premeditated’ attack. The incident took place on Chakaria Upazila in Cox Bazar district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh. During the accident, 5 members of the family were killed at the spot, 3 others were injured and one of them is battling with his life at the Chittagong General Hospital. According to survivor Munni Sushil, the ‘road accident’ was a pre-meditated murder. While five of her brothers were killed, two other brothers and one sister were…

The Sri Lanka Collective for Consensus (SLCC), a group of concerned citizens from various walks of life, has made some suggestions to amend the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).The PTA amendment Bill, prepared by the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government, is now before parliament in anticipation of the issue coming up in the February-March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).The SLCC says that the Prevention of Terrorism Act was introduced to the Sri Lankan legal system as a temporary law to deal with a growing armed insurrection. The PTA is being amended today in a time of peace and…

Dear Editor,Regarding the controversy surrounding the Atlantic Reader Series, and how fairness and balance can be achieved without members of particular ethnic groups feeling marginalised or misrepresented, and the dilemma of state institutions, which are supported by taxes being seen as favouring certain ethnic groups, cultures and/or religions by the material they produce for public consumption and the activities they engage in, I have a suggestion and I do hope that concerned members of the public who feel strongly about this issue will offer suggestions/solutions that are feasible and not just focused on the problems. However, certain factors need to…

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Bertrand Augustin’s barber studio has always been a space to talk, but recently, one topic has become particularly important: cancer.This is a cause that has become deeply personal to him after losing his dad George to the disease last year, and realising the subject was a difficult one for many of his family members. “I think it had been a taboo for a very long time,” he said.”Especially in the ethnic culture, where we tend not to discuss these things.”When he passed away and we were going to do the eulogy we were going to mention it but we were…