The Kashmir discourse in the West always takes the form of an Indian discourse and a Pakistani discourse. Both are mainstream statist narratives.  A true independent Kashmiri narrative, a Kashmiri perspective has yet to take root and this is lamentable. Recognising the importance of such a discourse to the world, eight scholars in the US [...]

By  Dr.Jagdish Sharma

While Britain progresses on the road to a culturally pluralistic society, a sense of ‘Britishness’ needs to be strengthened
Multiculturalism means different things to different people. In recent times it has come under attack as a failed idea and policy from different people in different contexts.  At a recent seminar hosted by the Royal [...]

The new concept of transnational migration or transnational social space has become important in socio-political terms
Migel Jayasinghe
Gordon Allport in his book The Nature of Prejudice (1954) developed a theory of prejudice against out-groups in the context of the American Civil Rights Movement which is summarised in the formulation that contact between groups under optimal conditions [...]

In recent years there has been increasing interest in relations between migrant-sending states and ‘their’ diasporas. On one hand, there has been an exponential increase in the output of literature on transnationalism. On the other, the popularity of these studies is not due to pure academic interest (if there is such a thing), but also results from their significance to questions confronting policy makers at various levels searching for ways of understanding and reacting to a world being transformed by migration.