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Sri Lanka and its people are not new to natural hazards. Droughts, floods, landslides, epidemics and many other hazards are standard features of the recent history of the Island. The current predicament of the country due to Cyclone Ditwah, which unleashed catastrophic flooding and landslides, is the latest disaster people

The valley bleeds again, and the script writes itself. A militant attack. A volley of accusations. Troops amass. Politicians thunder. Nuclear nightmares are summoned like ancient gods, wielded for effect. And once the show is over, the curtain falls, leaving the stage empty and the people forgotten. But Kashmir is

The scaffold has returned—not as an instrument of justice, but as a stage for vengeance. In Donald Trump’s America, the state no longer merely punishes; it performs. And the audience, whether horrified or thrilled, is part of the script. Michel Foucault warned us about this. In Discipline and

The time of politics presents itself as flat and chronological: a response to the immediacies of  events. It operates within the calculus of existing powers, their distribution and geopolitical reach.  History is frequently reduced to the accumulation of common sense and structural contradictions to  crisis management. The new Labour government

Argentinians are currently in the process of electing a new president. The country is facing its usual state of economic turmoil and political uncertainty. Sergio Massa, a centrist candidate, will compete against Javier Milei, a right-wing firebrand, in a run-off election scheduled for November 19th. Concerns about financial and currency