Economics

Empires that refuse to quit

Let's explore the Colonialism of our times - Neo-colonialism.

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Wise words

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Author – D H Lawrence…...

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Understanding Wars

A nation caught in cross-wires

In this article, let’s look at Haiti in post-Duvalier times spiralling in disarray into the 21st century.

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Current Affairs

From colonialism to neo-colonialism

In this article, we follow the history of Haiti, through the 1930s to 1980s, mostly through turmoil under greedy rulers, with periods of less than a decade in total, of hope, peace and prosperity.

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Current Affairs

Haiti - A paradise in turmoil

Let’s explore the historic conflict in Haiti, a nation still shackled to violence and poverty, unable to throw off its colonial legacies.

In  this article we look at the early history of Haiti’s colonisations.

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In Part X on Global Conflicts under the Radar and the fifth part focussed on Congo(DRC), we’ll take a look at how the violence evolved during the first 4 years of 2020s. We’ll see the escalating violence and massacres of ADF and the emergence of M23 with sophisticated weapons.

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This article, is a continuation of my previous article on “What we want for Palestine”. Here I explore the plans for Palestine in the offing, made by parties interested in the region. Parties “interested in the region” are not necessarily parties who are interested in the future of the nation state of Palestine, as we will see shortly.

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In the third and final part of the novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, we cover some of the impact of war on the soldiers, the brief breaks they get among the civilians, how they find themselves alienated from the peaceful lives they had once lived and their struggles to cope with their trauma.

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The Glory is the 2023 revenge crime thriller that set the bar very high for the rest of kdrama series of the same genre. The series is said to be inspired by a 2016 bullying incident in Cheongju, South Korea where a group of high-schoolers bullied a girl very badly, causing her severe burns.

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In Part VIII of the series on Global conflicts under the radar and fourth section on Congo, we revisit the First and Second Congo Wars and the events leading up to the present conflicts, starting with the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s.

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In Part IX of this series on Global conflicts under the radar featuring Congo, we take a look at the Congo’s history including its politics, conflicts, creation, rise and fall of various players during the period from 2012 to 2020.

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