New York’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, faced online ridicule for eating with his hands, exposing lingering colonial hierarchies around race, civility, and culture. The controversy sparked debates on identity, diaspora hypocrisy, and how colonial-era notions of refinement still shape global attitudes
In its annual report on global inequity, titled 'Takers, not Makers,' Oxfam International has cited several studies to claim that the modern multinational corporation is a creation of colonialism. The report is released every year on the first day of the World Economic Forum meeting
The ‘Dutch Declaration of the Rights of Man’ envisaged that no power on earth should have the right to control the destinies of the people living in another country
Imperialism today needs to be conceptualised in terms of gratis (one-way transfer of wealth to western nations) plus the threats that it poses to human life and the planet itself
