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Sagar: Reimagining Independence
Znet Article, June, 14 2013
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What does national identity of a nation really mean in today’s world? Are we not all citizens of the entire globe, holding multiple identities and in an increasing number of cases even multiple-citizenship?
Sagar: Republic of Rape
Znet Article, January, 11 2013
Satya Sagar
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A letter to a friend abroad enquiring about the horrific gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in the Indian capital New Delhi recently.
Sagar: The Political Prisoners of Rafael Correa
Znet Article, December, 19 2012
Satya Sagar
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According to the Ecuadorian government this Professor of Sociology at the Central University of Quito is the leader of a ‘terrorist’ gang, carrying out acts of ‘sabotage’ against the state
Sagar: Many Avatars of Indian Corruption
Znet Article, August, 25 2011
Satya Sagar
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To call Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption a ‘second freedom movement’ may be hyperbole but in recent times there has been no mass upsurge for a purely public cause, that has captured the imagination of so many.
Sagar: To Fukushima with Love!
Znet Article, April, 14 2011
Satya Sagar
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The idea is to send all the supporters of nuclear power from around the globe to the stricken Japanese nuclear complex to help plug the great leak from the sputtering reactors there?
Sagar: The Pharaohs of India
Znet Article, February, 24 2011
Satya Sagar
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When will the Indian public rise up by the millions against its corrupt rulers a la Egypt or Tunisia?
Sagar: Free Dr Binayak Sen, Free Us All!
Znet Article, January, 27 2011
Satya Sagar
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There is a spectre haunting the Indian security establishment. A spectre called the national and global campaign for Dr Binayak Sen’s release.
Sagar: Two Elites and a Proletariat
Znet Article, June, 02 2010
Satya Sagar
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The two month long street protests in Bangkok by thousands of ‘red shirt’ opponents of the Abhisit Vejajiva government demanding fresh elections and the violence that followed has been described as the worst conflict Thailand has ever faced in its...
Sagar: The Monoculture of ‘Human Rights’
Znet Article, March, 01 2010
Satya Sagar
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Over sixty years after Dr Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian Constitution, talked about the ‘essentially undemocratic’ nature of the ‘Indian soil’ his insight remains relevant to any discussion on human rights and civil liberties in the country.
Sagar: Gandhi, Guevara Fifty-Fifty
Znet Article, December, 27 2009
Satya Sagar
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I personally don’t have any absolute position on the issue of violence versus non-violence because both terms are in my view impossible to define with precision and no meaningful debate is possible around them.
Sagar: Corporations Out of My Hair!
Znet Article, December, 09 2009
Satya Sagar
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"Scientists discover way to convert human hair into high grade fuel" read the innocuous looking news item tucked away in a corner of the technology pages of my daily newspaper.
Sagar: Nandigram: The Beating of Medha Patkar
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Satya Sagar
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On 8 November when a mob of Communist Party of India (Marxist) supporters in West Bengal beat Medha Patkar, after dragging her out from a convoy headed to the troubled area of Nandigram, they bestowed a rare honour upon this brave woman.
Sagar: Global Hypocrisy on Burma
Znet Article, October, 01 2007
Satya Sagar
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As the Burmese military brutally cracks down on a popular uprising of its citizens demanding democracy the question on many minds is - so what is the world going to do about it? From the trend visible so far...
Sagar: Asian tsunami: Redefining Disaster
Znet Article, December, 22 2006
Satya Sagar
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On the second anniversary of the Asian earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004 it is worthwhile pondering what the entire tragedy was really all about. Going by the numbers - over 225,000 dead, a million more displaced and impoverished or by th...
Sagar: The Show Trial of Saddam Hussein
Znet Article, December, 04 2006
Satya Sagar
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In the run up to the US invasion of Iraq in March, 2003 there was one unusual but very interesting proposal for peace circulating among taxi drivers in Bangkok. The idea was simply to call off the impending war and instead organize a bout of Tha...
Sagar: Thai Coup In Hot Soup
Znet Article, October, 17 2006
Satya Sagar
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It is a staple Thai dish that you w...
Sagar: Thailand: Paradoxes in Paradise
Znet Article, September, 27 2006
Satya Sagar
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Hardly anyone familiar with the life and times of Thaksin Shinawatra - Thailand's erstwhile Prime Minister, would lament his recent ouster from power following a year of political turmoil. A former police official turned telecom tycoon turned po...
Sagar: India- The Burning Train
Znet Article, August, 12 2006
Satya Sagar
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15th August 2006 will mark yet another Independence Day for the modern Indian nation. Fifty nine years ago this day Pandit Nehru, the country's first Prime Minister, famously declared the new born nation's 'tryst with destiny' and promised to ma...
Sagar: Israel as Future of the Globe?
Znet Article, July, 31 2006
Satya Sagar
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For all those who think that Israel is run by the most despicable, racist and repressive regime in the world here is some very bad news indeed. Not only are the Israeli state and its ruthless methods here to stay they could also be, very frighte...
Sagar: Review of Amartya Sen's "Identity and Violence"
Znet Article, July, 11 2006
Satya Sagar
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‘Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny’Amartya Sen, Allen Lane, 2006, 215 pg. ‘Arab-looking Sri Lankan journalist’ said the caption of the photo in the Sunday edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. That...
Sagar: Privatize the Indian Parliament!
Znet Article, December, 24 2005
Satya Sagar
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Earlier this month a television news channel exposed, using hidden cameras, how Indian politicians across several mainstream parties take money to raise questions in Parliament. While the event has evoked a predictable public chorus of ‘...
Sagar: Genocide By Geology
Znet Article, January, 01 2005
Satya Sagar
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26 December 2004. It was the day Geology committed Genocide. For millions of people along the coastal regions of South and Southeast Asia the morning had begun like any other passing day, a step closer to the end of the old year and the beginni...
Sagar: Beheading the UN
Znet Article, October, 06 2004
Satya Sagar
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In every standard Bollywood movie there comes a scene that never fails to work up the audience into a frenzy of excitement and applause. The hero, after being whipped black and blue by the villain and his henchmen, finally wipes the blood off hi...
Sagar: Torturing the Tongue
Znet Article, September, 08 2004
Satya Sagar
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In the extremely depressing times we live in we should be thankful for all those who make us laugh in any way and for whatever reason. One of these fine people of course happens to be none other than our beloved Bush Jr., the most unwittingly wi...
Sagar: Bush Reloaded
Znet Article, September, 01 2004
Satya Sagar
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“Weep, buddy, weep. I’m gonna vote Bush and I hope he comes and bombs your ass†It is not very often that I get unsigned love letters like this or prognostications about the fate of my posterior. But there it was staring ...
Sagar: India's Intifada
Znet Article, August, 23 2004
Satya Sagar
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It is not Fallujah, Palestine or even Kashmir but only a small province in the north-east of India. But there is no doubt that what the people of Manipur are staging right now is a full-scale intifada against the atrocities of an occupying army....
Sagar: Fahrenheit 911 Art and Politics
Znet Article, July, 02 2004
Satya Sagar
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"The reason why I believe I've had this very fortunate success... is because I actually put the entertainment and the art before the politics," insists Mr Moore. "It's very hard for someone on the professional left to put...
Sagar: The Crash of Civilizations
Znet Article, May, 13 2004
Satya Sagar
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When it all started out a few years ago the ideologues of the global War on Terror glibly called it the Clash of Civilizations. Between the torture, rape, murder of Iraqi prisoners by the US army and the gruesome beheading of an American hostage b...
Sagar: Panic in Bangkok
Znet Article, May, 06 2004
Satya Sagar
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On April 28 the so-called global War on Terror arrived in the Land of Smiles with a bloody bang. (Just when I thought I could write glibly about Iraq while sitting in faraway, peaceful Thailand) That day, the Thai army and police- in a massive...
Sagar: Us Elections: Let The Whole World Vote!
Znet Article, February, 27 2004
Satya Sagar
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I am not a citizen of the United States, but I desperately want to vote in that country's next Presidential election. You heard right, I am an Indian, I live in Thailand, I have never been to the United States but I want to vote in the upcoming US...
