International Affairs - The Youth Blog

Wave of Victory in Bangladesh; Pakistan continues to watch on

5th August, 2024 saw a marvelous event taking place in an otherwise bleak global environment – Bangladeshi protestors, led by students, forced Prime Minister Hasina Wajid to resign, bringing an end to a 15 year old rule. What started as student protests against quota systems a few weeks back, amplified into nation-wide organised resistance which…

Conflict turned Negotiation: history being written in Armenia and Azerbaijan

With the onset of the year 2024, the world saw a transformation in the political affairs and international relations of the Caucasus region. One such alteration is seen in the South Caucasus region between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The decades-long hostility between the two over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has slackened down. On 21st September 2023,…

The Silent Shredder

More and more you shred everything apartThe lands, our dignity and a mother’s heart.Replaying are a child’s anguished yawps all day, but-No valour comes to save his now vacuous hut.Reins of men good for not one high crown:Your mighty silence will come crumbling down. Now and then, my last sensitised thoughts shake me awakeAnd grasps…

Injustice in today’s “modern” world

Under the same moon Under the same sky Different households, different problems. All while, under the same moon, under the same sky One story from a million A child. Broken by genocide. Unaware of his next meal and if he’ll ever heal “Will I live?” Instead of “I want to play!” One story Out of…

5th Generation Genocide: How Can We Collectively Defeat Israel?

Does the Israeli onslaught on Palestine – for decades, but especially the current attack on Gaza – seem like a normal war to you? It does not. Well, part of the reason is that a legitimate WAR requires both sides to have an army, which Palestine does not have. Beyond that though, Israel is doing…

It’s Black and White: Not Every Story Has “Two Sides”

Israel is bombing Gaza again. Palestinian lives are being lost again. And yet again, we are hearing from the ‘gatekeepers of world peace’ that they will offer unconditional support to – ISRAEL. We are again hearing from influential celebrities about “peace” on “both sides. We are yet again witnessing the ignorance of the real problem:…

Wreck-ed state of national affairs

For any morally alive nation, the drowning of 400+ civilians – while trying to escape the country – in a shipwreck should be the ONLY talk in the country for weeks. We, however, still have bigger issues to discuss like the attack on a part of a building a month back or how the former…