Photo credit: The Economic Times After reports of mass detentions of Bengali-speaking migrants in other states, Bengal Police has witnessed a rapid increase in online Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) applications. The Times of India reports that there has been a mass detention of Bengali-speaking migrants in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi, and UP. Cops in…
Sango can be heard thundering in the skies; Oya, winding and storming here on earth! Ogun, powering furnace in forge! Yet, we turn deaf ear! What’s more, we turn blind eye, pretending not to see! If we did see or never lost our auditory system, did we also lose our sense of speech? We continue…
Photo credit: the New York Times The US Department of Health and Human Services (NHS) now classifies the Health Centre Program (Section 330 grants) as a “Federal public benefit,” which restricts Non-Qualified Aliens’ access to most services. Only emergency care, immunizations, and communicable disease treatment remain accessible to all. HINSHAW reports that there is an operational…
Photo credit: the Global News Ontario Premier Doug Ford has claimed it takes two years for asylum seekers to be given the right to work. However, the federal government has said the average processing time is less than two months. Global News reports that he said it on Wednesday at the three-day leaders’ summit. The summit…
Photo credit: the Guardian The emergence of a right-wing populist party in Japan’s election on Sunday running on a “Japanese First” slogan is raising concerns of a backlash against the growing foreign presence in the country. The Guardian reports that the Sanseito Party has successfully tapped into the unease around an increasing population of immigrants and a…
Some uncouth fellow; opens their trap; says they to a k-legged; your load’s askew! Man, tired, famished, undernourished; in exasperation, replies, look at my physique! Babies in womb; if not in apparent denial, know most of our problems; stem from the roots! With situation unfounded; human lives scattered; we imbibe petulantly; fabulous absurdities! Deceits are our…
By Tola Adeniyi Most times, in our self-absorption, we assume that people are talking about us. When some of us enter a social gathering, we are so self-conscious in our exaggerated self-importance that we think that all eyes at the party are centred on us especially so, if we believed the designer-dress we adorned was…
