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Shivangi Shanker Koottalakatt

1 | Editor in Chief | Shivangi has spent nearly 7 years writing professionally. For at least half of this period, her work has explored politics, culture, and global affairs, connecting complex ideas with clear and engaging narratives.

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

This year was special as far as the Nobel Prize Announcements were concerned – many remarkable discoveries found acknowledgement and were considerably relevant particularly in the trying period that we’re going through. But it was unique because women won ‘big’ this year! There were three winners for science– two for

An Ardern-uous Fight

An Ardern-uous Fight

Jacinda Ardern just sealed her victory and a second term as New Zealand’s Prime Minister. Well-wishers are terming it a win for socialism but above all, the election shows just how crucial the handling of COVID-19 is for political verdicts. Certainly, there are enough leaves in New Zealand’s

Double Whammy for Russia

Double Whammy for Russia

Alexei Navalny and Alexander Lukashenko – these men are at the centre of all focus that Russia receives today. Navalny is nothing like Lukashenko. The latter is an incumbent in his country while the first, an outlaw where he sought to emerge as a political opponent. Lukashenko is ‘friend’ to Putin

Breeding Ground for Conspiracies

Breeding Ground for Conspiracies

This is the Post-Truth era: we favour ‘projected’ realities to the real; the grand narratives to truth; and hyped rhetoric to informed speech. Therefore, there’s no surprise when conspiracy theorists like QAnon make an appearance. Premonitions about an ideological downslide did not occur to the past century's

The Balance-Act

The Balance-Act

She’s a four-time finalist for the Pulitzer; She’s won the Peabody Award in 2018 for the very series that’s now under the scanner – Rukmini Callimachi has just walked into a controversy that on-lookers in the field of journalism were perhaps hawking for. Feeding right into the mouths

Far from Ataturk

Far from Ataturk

Turkey’s authoritarian trails had always been there – but, Erdoğan’s Turkey is not, in any measure, like Ataturk’s. This does not come as a shocking revelation today. If the latter’s reformism was pro-Europe and secular, the former upholds a revision of the country based on pan-Islamism. It’

An Attempt to Redefine the ‘Woman’

An Attempt to Redefine the ‘Woman’

The new conservative Christian woman – strong in her views, multi-tasker at home and at work – is on the rise. If Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a beloved icon for pop-culture and feminism alike, Amy Coney Barrett is now the symbol of ‘unflawed’ conservatism that the right had been yearning for. Femininity

To Trust or Not to Trust

To Trust or Not to Trust

With data regulation, we can regain agency and dictate where our data enters and gets utilized. However, regulations should not become a distorted canvas for partisan politics to play out.

A Murky Breakup on the Cards

A Murky Breakup on the Cards

Will the breakup of the United Kingdom be the next domino to fall after Brexit? As nationalist sentiments grow in constituent nations such as Wales and Scotland, the possibility of secession looms large