Stop sending them back!
One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu — the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our inter-connectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality ‘Ubuntu’ — you are known for [...]
Kenyan minister exonerates the Masai tribe from killings of lions
Kenya’s Forestry and Wildlife minister, Dr Noah Wekesa Tuesday exonerated the Masai tribe from the recent spate of killings of lions accusing instead people he called ‘economic saboteurs’ out to wreck the country’s tourism industry. Speaking in Nairobi at the first regional conference on forest by the International Union of Forest Research Organisations and the [...]
Kalpana and the Jumma women’s movement today
Feminist researcher Bina D’Costa and I were recently discussing a range of obstacles faced by the Jumma [1] women’s movement as well as all indigenous women’s movement today. D’Costa observed that one of the challenges that confront women’s political activism and rights based movements is to forge meaningful alliances and re-build linkages with indigenous human [...]
Ethnic Based Federalism and why …… (VIDEO)
People are again back in streets shouting slogans of ethnic based federalism. Perhaps, it has just been weeks in scenario of the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly that was nominated by the people and within weeks political puppets are on streets demanding need of ethnic based federalism. To understand the need of federalism we have [...]
Nepal burns in the agony of Ethnic Federalism (VIDEO)
Nepal burns in agony of identity crisis, from past few weeks Nepal has been in a crisis situation of political deadlock and lack of understanding in between the communities. Nepal was declared Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in May 2008 but still after 4 years Nepal has not been able to address the issue of [...]
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