"The great Indian epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata used to belong to everyone. Now, they’ve been claimed as the exclusive property of the Hindu right wing."
https://t.co/Hi7Le6lIIU
Great story from Asavari Singh about why the sanctions against the Myanmar Army have never and will never work -- because of the enormous drug trade in heroin and meth they profit from.
https://t.co/IDYfU26O6s
"He struggled to describe the perpetrator, and was unable even to say if his assailant was male or female because he considers gender to be 'a social construct.'”
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Many are familiar with the Western canon – those core works of literature, history, and philosophy that are considered essential to the study of the subject. How about the Chinese canon?
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"The two quintessential translators of the Quran underwent conversions in opposite directions: Pickthall became a Muslim and Ali became an Englishman."
https://t.co/v4hVrDsoUO
"Not only does this admiration of Chinese dictatorship threaten the survival of democracy in India, it is founded on a misreading of China’s development story."
https://t.co/PMShScNJY2
"Disney is planning a series of sequels to its 2020 Mulan live action remake, including Mulan and the South China Sea, Mulan and the 14th Five-Year Plan, and Mulan Pacifies Tibet."
https://t.co/YnH8gms1dS
"Gothic literature is strewn with the tortured genius of women at the mercy of the restrictions placed on them by society — and their own minds."
https://t.co/3Nt4IW77CB