Inner city Paris shows none of the cultural and racial diversity that marks London. Immigrants often live in cheap housing in ghettoized council estates on the edges of France’s grand cities, whether Paris, Lyon or Bordeaux with Marseille being the only exception. Their integration and feeling of not belonging to
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Three terror attacks in two years: Why is France a target -S. Aaron
Religious extremists are able to exploit the deep sense of discrimination and exclusion that minorities experience in France. Waves of immigrants from former French colonies in North Africa and West Asia were, for instance, settled in “underfunded, distant suburbs” , called banlieues, which have come to connote slums marked by
How West learned to breathe free – Vandana Shukla
Swami Paramhansa Yogananda travelled around US for decades. His deeply transformative powers of yoga stand in contrast with the industry grown around it. An American documentary captures rare moments. Long before yoga became muscle-honing postures, something to reclaim Bharatiyata, it was a universal device meant to maximise human potential. Recently released,
Poverty isn’t always a reason: What Dhaka killings tell us about terrorism – Prashant Jha
As the identity of the men who attacked the Dhaka restaurant on recently emerged, Bangladesh’s elite were shocked. The young men belonged to affluent families, with parents who worked in business and politics. They had studied in some of the country’s top schools. Some had even gone to higher educational
Dhaka attack is an alarm: The secular code of Bangladesh is under siege – Subir Bhaumik
Sheikh Hasina’s government has lived in self-delusion over the serial attacks on secular bloggers, writers and publishers that slowly snowballed into assassinations of Hindu and Buddhist priests and even foreigners like the Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella and Japanese national Kunio Hoshi. Yes, there has been a build-up to that.
From Brexit to the future: More neoliberal ideology won’t help – Joseph E Stiglitz
Digesting the full implications of the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ referendum will take Britain, Europe, and the world a long time. The most profound consequences will, of course, depend on the European Union’s response to the UK’s withdrawal. Most people initially assumed that the EU would not “cut off its nose
Embrace anger more deeply- reawakening of spirituality
Authentic spirituality is not a little spark within or a humming of knowingness, not a psychedelic blast-through or meeting with self on some exalted plane of consciousness, but an enormous power of liberation, or a kind of sanctuary providing both heat and light for the healing of wounds and reawakening
China’s Asia
A government of, by, and for the slogan
At its recent meeting, the national executive of the Bharatiya Janata Party passed a political resolution, a passage of which read: ‘Our Constitution describes India as Bharat also, [hence] refusal to chant victory to Bharat is tantamount to disrespect to our Constitution itself. Bharat Mata ki Jai is not merely
A de facto Emergency?
In the aftermath of the events in JNU, the NDA is forcing every person intervening in the debate to first prove his/her nationalistic commitment. Not agreeing with the BJP discourse means that the person is anti-national. Three months ago, I jocularly argued in these columns (Our ‘liberal’ worries, December 18)