South Asia Economic Focus | Fall 2022 Coping with Shocks Migration and the Road to Resilience ABOUT In short order, a series of once-in-a-lifetime shocks has hit South Asia. Elevated inflation, balance of payments pressures, a slowdown in the global economy, and monetary tightening in other countries present renewed challenges, while the scars from the COVID […]
By Ismail Patel Published in DAWN on October 05, 2022 THE recent violence in Leicester, UK, by a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-inspired Hindutva mob has sent shock-waves across the country and beyond. Leicester is home to over 100,000 Muslims and Hindus, many of whom are Gujaratis and trace their origins to Africa, mainly Uganda, Kenya and Malawi.[…]
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OctPublished in The Guardian on October 05, 2022 A remote field in Bradford rumbles as a rider, resplendent in a crisp white shalwar kameez, pistachio-coloured waistcoat, turban and fan billowing upwards like peacock feathers, gallops on his horse towards a peg hammered into the ground. As the rider thunders closer to his target he lowers a long[…]
