Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD
@NitashaKaul
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Full Prof, Chair in Politics, IR & Critical Interdisciplinary Studies, novelist, writer, poet, traveller, dreamer, economist, artist CV at https://t.co/pLd6p6CNOk
London
Joined March 2010
On Jan 1, 2023, the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) — founded in 1989 and the home of politics & international relations at University of Westminster — gets a new (+1st female) Director. Yours truly 🥰 https://t.co/zzlk4VXiE1
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An elite army unit in Madagascar, that had joined protestors calling for the president's resignation, says the armed forces are now under its command. The move has not been confirmed.
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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — An attempted coup is underway in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, the country's president says.
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“ ایک بچہ، ایک استاد، ایک کتاب، ایک قلم — دنیا بدل سکتے ہیں-“ @Malala #DayOfTheGirl
@MalalaFund @MalalaFundPK
This #DayOfTheGirl, my message is that @MalalaFund continues standing with every girl in Pakistan to ensure your voice is heard, you can learn freely and choose your own future. Together, we will recover from the devastating floods, build safer schools and fight for policies
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Taliban comes to India, and to Uttar Pradesh, and how, courtesy BJP. Fundamentalists of all stripes have many things in common.
Taliban, escorted by a convoy of UP police, arrives in Mercedes Benz in Uttar Pradesh.
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More than 1,000 Israelis have joined forces with a Palestinian-American neurosurgeon to fund an orphan village in Gaza, offering education and care to hundreds of children who lost their parents in the war https://t.co/HDW0nbWtml
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'Women's empowerment' pretence is for other selective audiences. Bonhomie with Taliban is expected for a regressive dispensation, but to kowtow by pretending Afghan women's dehumanisation does not exist & not inviting Indian women journalists at meet in India is pathetic.
No Woman Journalist invited to the press conference by Muttaqi. No reference to the horrible plight of Afghan girls and women under Taliban regime in opening remarks of EAM Jaishankar or the joint statement issued after talks with Muttaqi. Muttaqi getting the red carpet welcome
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'Women's empowerment' pretence is for other selective audiences. Bonhomie with Taliban is expected for a regressive dispensation, but to kowtow by pretending Afghan women's dehumanisation does not exist & not inviting Indian women journalists at meet in India is pathetic.
No Woman Journalist invited to the press conference by Muttaqi. No reference to the horrible plight of Afghan girls and women under Taliban regime in opening remarks of EAM Jaishankar or the joint statement issued after talks with Muttaqi. Muttaqi getting the red carpet welcome
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The defense of democracy, and of the champions of democracy, is vital and urgent for addressing our political and planetary challenges. “When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognise courageous defenders of #freedom who rise and resist. #Democracy depends on people
In the past year, #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions of people. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to
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The 2025 #NobelPeacePrize goes to a brave and committed champion of peace – to a woman who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness. Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado has shown that the tools of democracy are also the tools of peace. She embodies the hope
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The recent internet #blackout is only the latest example of the #Taliban’s increasingly brutal assault on the rights of girls and women. An article by @GordonBrown. https://t.co/yUUGqSaWQl
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The recent internet blackout is only the latest example of the Taliban’s increasingly brutal assault on the rights of girls and women
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In 1957, researchers at the University of Illinois programmed a computer to write music. The result - Illiac Suite for String Quartet - became the first musical score ever composed by a computer
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Coming up soon on 25th October 2025 ▶️ an international conference at CSD exploring the enduring impact of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on #compassion, #reincarnation and #Geopolitics. #Tibet #Buddhism Open to all, register here -- https://t.co/2xKP2ebJ0B
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New CSD Seminars🔥 Open to all, Register at links ➡️Prof Shirin Rai (SOAS) 14 October, 'Depletion: the human costs of caring' https://t.co/5hvHrECuOa ➡️ Dr Edward Anderson (Northumbria) 18 November, 'Diasporic Hindutva and Contested Communities: Transnational Identities and the
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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Hey, New York — Brian thinks he's our new CFO. We gave him a stage to prove it.
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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October 7. A day of violence, pain, and memory in a destructive world.
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
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Trivia questions about French politics in the 2020s are going to be impossibly hard
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