by admin | Apr 14, 2020 | Everyday Peace
The situation has been evolving very rapidly around the world, so fast that it has been difficult to write about it. A month ago feels like another lifetime. The first shock, for me, was discovering there was an outbreak of COVID-19 in the geriatric ward of the...
by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | Everyday Peace
Eleven years ago, on November 4, 2008, in a forest area near the border between the Indian states of West Bengal and Jharkhand, an incident of police violence on local tribal women’s sparked a widespread resistance movement and followed by a conflict… that you...
by admin | Dec 18, 2019 | Everyday Peace
I was delighted when, a few weeks back, I stumbled upon a discussion on social media where scholars talked about avoiding academic conferences to reduce their carbon footprint. I was even more delighted when it was acknowledged that there are other structural...
by admin | Dec 18, 2019 | Everyday Peace
Last Tuesday, after attending a Race Relations Week event, I was at the public garden with my children, still wearing traditional Indian clothes. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, just four days after the massacre in Christchurch. That day, I was approached several...
by admin | Apr 25, 2019 | Everyday Peace
When I came to NZ, the remembrance of war during ANZAC Day was something new to me. I was studying Peace and Conflict Studies and I had the opportunity to learn about its meaning and history. I met people whose parents, grandparents or relatives went to fight in a far...
