US President Barack Obama became the first sitting American President to visit the Japanese town of Hiroshima, 71 years after it was targeted by a nuclear weapon. The US Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on the city on August 6, 1945, during WWII. President Obama’s visit came against the backdrop of USA’s […]
Author: Niharika Tagotra
Phd Research Scholar, Nuclear physicist.
Avid traveler, Ardent Reader.
Human Rights in North Korea Taken Hostage
Otto Warmbier is the new face of Human rights violations in Korea. The 21-year-old student from the University of Virginia was sentenced by the North Korean regime to 15 years of hard labor “for crimes against the state.” Warmbier was on a five-day tour to North Korea when he was arrested by the state for […]
Syrian Civil War: 2011 and After
When they said “Revolutions go not backward”, they certainly did not imagine Syria. In the four and a half years of conflict, around 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives while another 11 million are displaced as refugees across the world. The Pro-democracy Protests The pro-democracy protests, which began in March 2011 in Deraa as an […]
How do Drug Networks of Africa Fund ISIS Terrorism?
The rise of ISIS in Africa is inextricably linked with the expansion of drug trafficking networks across the region. A major contributor to this has been the cocaine trade that occurs along the southern coasts of Europe. The militants, in the 2000s, used the route along the North African coast to smuggle cocaine into Europe. […]
Pollsmoor Prison and Criminal Justice in South Africa
“It’s the truth of Oscar Wilde’s haunting line about the tent of Blue that prisoner’s call the sky”. Nelson Mandela quoted Oscar Wilde when he described the conditions at South Africa’s Pollsmoor prison. Officially known as the Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison, it is where some of the most dangerous criminals are dumped. It is located […]
Why is ISIS Recruiting Children ?
The face of the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq & Syria) is transforming. Its fresh recruits are not only young men from across the world, but its new members also include women fighters, adolescents and children aged anywhere between 8 and 16. The dramatic change in the demography of the ISIS soldiers was initially compared […]