Art is a way we can realise our imagination, feel its potential and piece it into a form of hope. Upon entering the Edinburgh Palestine Museum, one is not first encountered by images of ruin, but by Anani’s grand canvas of rolling hills, lush green trees, and floral meadows. Where one enters expecting violence, Anani’s painting embraces us in its haven and pokes at our presumptions: Why is it that people expect only darkness when they hear of Palestine? 

The contemporary Indian political landscape is a battle of ideology and rhetoric. Instead of being built on any grounded sense of reality, it is set up on a hyperreality that is continuously being created and reinforced through media. The last decade has seen a profound shift in how politics is experienced, especially with the rise of digital platforms that do not just reflect public sentiment but actively produce it.

The function of spoken language extends far beyond mere communication—it is an indicator of one’s identity, an instrument of access, and, mostly, a mechanism of establishing authority in a social setting. Our language, accent, dialect, and even grammar influences favourably, and adversely the type of opportunities made available to us, society’s perception of us and our sense of belonging. 

Both Amazon and the judicial system of South Africa have acted as neocolonial powers, employing colonial tactics to further dispossess the Khoisan people. In this case, Amazon as neocolonial infrastructure is supported by the divide and conquer strategy and by the South African post-apartheid legislature and judiciary, which ensures the systemic erasure of the Khoisan people.

The story of climate technology transfers reveals both the pitfalls of older North–South models and the opportunities that new forms of cooperation present. Traditional approaches have been constrained by credit rating biases, intellectual property barriers, and the chronic underdelivery of international climate finance. While China has forced technology transfers in a way that few other countries can, this has not been without its pitfalls.

In the shadow of the Bodhi tree, where Buddha attained enlightenment, a profound struggle continues to unfold. The Mahabodhi Temple, Buddhism’s holiest shrine, remains at the heart of a protracted and deeply symbolic conflict between Brahmanical control versus Buddhist reclamation of sacred heritage.

“What is often misunderstood is that there are regional disparities within countries in relation to the digital divide—it is not just rural vs urban, but core vs periphery," outlines Javier Ruiz Diaz, Policy Director of the UK-based Open Rights Group, speaking to Political Pandora. The accelerating pace of technological development is transforming daily life across Europe, but is exposing the unequal access it provides.  

Trump’s tariff-based approach will be counterproductive: it will fail to block Chinese products and will undermine domestic solar panel production through higher input costs.

With standardisation comes homogeneity, and homogeneity creates anomalies who do not fit into the mould and therefore need to be discarded on the margins. These beings on the margins, who do not fit sanitised and legally-enforced definitions created by states and adopted by nations, are at the centre of the discussion. Dalit-Queer folx (people who are both Dalit and Queer) inhabit the "death worlds" that Achille Mbembe discusses in his theorisation of Necropolitics.

Against the quiet backdrop of a people's tribunal, away from the formal corridors of The Hague or the official offices of global diplomacy, justice and calls for accountability diverged from traditional legal channels.

The global rise of right-wing gender discourse and advocacy is a testament to the fact that there is no monolithic gender system that exists in any given society.

The image of families clawing through rubble while awaiting aid—aid that never arrived—is not merely a tragic snapshot of natural disaster. It is the image of a political failure: the state’s inability—and unwillingness—to care for its people.

The struggle, they say, is not just about ownership of the land, but about safeguarding Pachamama—the source of life.

“Restaurants have a separate entry so their customers do not see us. They make an arrangement from the back gate of the restaurant itself, t

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