by anna | Aug 15, 2019 | Africa, Asia, India, Media Freedom, The Commonwealth
By Dr Kiran Hassan, Associate Fellow – Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
Is China’s growing presence in the media in Commonwealth countries compatible with the Commonwealth’s core values of good governance, freedom of expression and transparency?
by anna | Jul 15, 2019 | Asia, Elections, Human Rights, India, Media Freedom
By Dr William Crawley – Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The national elections in India in 2019 were marked by a keen focus on every aspect of government by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Narendra Modi since it came to power...
by anna | Jun 27, 2019 | Asia, Elections, India
By Professor James Manor ‘Extravagant new promises can buy him time, but far from solving the problem, they compound the risk.’ ‘His main alternative is to stress not aspirations, but resentments.’ ‘He has already de-emphasised aspirational appeals: Nothing has...
by anna | May 9, 2019 | Asia, Sri Lanka, Terrorism
By Syed Badrul Ahsan Terrorism is not dead. The purveyors of terror are yet around. That is the lesson coming out of the eight explosions which rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. With close to 300 people dead and hundreds of others wounded, one is quite certain that...
by anna | Apr 15, 2019 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Elections, Human Rights, Imperial and Postcolonial History, Is the Commonwealth relevant? series, Media Freedom, The Commonwealth
By Dr Sue Onslow – Deputy Director of The Institute of Commonwealth Studies This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and – unlike the more dubious claims and convenient myths of the modern Commonwealth...
by anna | Mar 21, 2019 | Asia, Human Rights, India, Media Freedom
Up to 900 million eligible voters in India will go to the polls in April and May. Historically largely well informed, thanks to government and policy discussions in the media before general elections, Indians have been able to vote out incompetent or corrupt governments. But things are looking different this time, explains Dr Kiran Hassan, associate fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
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