The Silenced Stream: Honey Trehan’s ‘Satluj’ and the Anatomy of State Censorship
Honey Trehan’s Satluj—a harrowing excavation of extrajudicial violence in 1990s Punjab—is a film that seems destined to exist more in the shadows of controversy than in the light of the cinema. While the film offers a somber, hagiographic portrait of…
The Inflationary Hydra: Why Easing Oil Prices Haven’t Silenced the Federal Reserve’s Alarm
The global economy currently finds itself in a state of precarious paradox. While the immediate specter of a full-scale war between the United States and Iran has begun to recede—leading to a cooling of crude oil benchmarks—the broader inflationary…
A Defiant Voice Silenced: UN Experts Demand Justice Following the Targeted Assassination of Afro-Mexican Activist Sael Silva Cisneros
Introduction: A Beacon of Advocacy Extinguished The international human rights community is reeling following the brutal assassination of Sael Silva Cisneros, a distinguished Afro-Mexican lawyer, scholar, and tireless champion for LGBTQ+ and racial…
A Voice Silenced: The Two-Year Enforced Disappearance of Burkina Faso Journalist Atiana Serge Oulon
Introduction: A Democracy in the Shadows For two years, the whereabouts of Atiana Serge Oulon, a prominent Burkinabe journalist and the director of the investigative newspaper L’Événement, have remained a chilling mystery. His abduction by state security…
