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Jun 4, 2021
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Eshal (she/her) is a student of law at the National Law University Odisha, and Senior Copyeditor at Political Pandora.
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May 28, 2025 ∙ 17 min
Drying Diplomacy: Evaluating the Legal Dimensions of Suspending the Indus Waters Treaty
An inflection point exists with India's suspension of the IWT that echoes beyond the immediate Indo-Pakistani dyad. It brings an urgent inquiry into whether international law allows suspension of treaty obligations based on persistent non-state violence.
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Apr 28, 2025 ∙ 16 min
Putting Aggression on Trial: The Rojava Verdict
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.
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Mar 28, 2025 ∙ 13 min
Born Lucky? Rethinking Citizenship in a Globalized World
Who belongs? Birthplace and bloodline shape destinies, but should citizenship be earned through real ties instead of an accident of birth?
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Oct 31, 2024 ∙ 3 min
China’s AI-Generated Music Revolution
The music streaming market is undergoing a metamorphosis of change in China through the use of artificial intelligence (AI). Kunlun Tech Co.
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Oct 15, 2024 ∙ 4 min
Can TIDAL’s New Songwriting Tool Redefine Royalties for Artists?
For years, songwriters have been fighting an uphill battle. The explosion of streaming platforms has turned the music industry on its head,
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Oct 5, 2024 ∙ 6 min
Kamala Harris is Brat: A Meme-ified Political Campaign
In the teeming cesspool of American politics, where endorsements feel like they are stuffed into kid's goodie bags at a five-year-old's birt
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Sep 30, 2024 ∙ 13 min
The Dark Glow: Usage of Phosphorus in Modern Warfare
Exploring the legal loopholes surrounding a devastating weapon
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Apr 17, 2023 ∙ 13 min
The Camera’s Gaze: Politics of Photography
Photography is always a deliberate act. One of including and excluding, of focusing and defocusing. Of picking and cropping, colouring, fix
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Jun 24, 2022 ∙ 18 min
Saffronisation: The Social Death of Indian Muslims
Every Muslim in India has their own backstory. Perhaps their grandfather’s neighbourhood got ransacked by Hindutva-affiliated militants, or
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Jan 14, 2022 ∙ 10 min
Space Race 2.0 & Other Plights of Extra-Terrestrial Billionaires
Human space exploration started around 64 years ago, on October 4, 1957, when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) launched...
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Dec 3, 2021 ∙ 11 min
Not Just a Pretty Face: A Deep Dive Into the Beauty Industry
The concept of “beauty products” has been around for thousands of years. From castor oil balm by ancient Egyptians to skin creams by the...
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Nov 13, 2021 ∙ 11 min
Disintegration of Democracy in Tunisia
For years, Tunisian fruit seller Mohammed Bouazizi would operate a fruit stand on the streets close to the Mediterranean beach, lamenting to
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Aug 19, 2021 ∙ 6 min
The Fall of Afghanistan
Just a month ago, intelligence agencies abroad began predicting a countdown until the inevitable rise of the Taliban, following the withdraw
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Jul 28, 2021 ∙ 7 min
Terrorism, Imperialism, and the Afghan Quagmire
Inarguably, while studying contemporary world history, one of the most notable events impacting global politics would be 9/11: the September
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Jul 7, 2021 ∙ 12 min
Geneva 2021: Ghosts of the Past Peering into the Future
Meeting in a Swiss villa, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin discuss the future of US-Russia relations. In 2018, the world was aghast as they
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Jun 16, 2021 ∙ 12 min
The Harrowing Threats of Vaccine Nationalism
A grim resource inequality in poor nations and glimpsing the road to worldwide COVID-19 vaccination.
On April 27, 2021, Center for Disease
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