It was unexpectedly unsettling to sit again in a virtual room. The familiar choreography returned—screens lighting up, names appearing—but the reason for gathering had shifted. These were people I had worked with, studied alongside, interviewed, and been interviewed by. We once met through institutions, through roles carefully defined by contracts and acronyms. Now we were meeting in their absence. This time, there were no updates to deliver, no strategies to refine. We were

Pic RozeGold In Nepal, the past has not ended — it lingers in the silence between generations. Nearly two decades after the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord promised justice and healing, victims of conflict-era crimes are still waiting to be seen, heard, and repaired. A new transitional justice law, passed in August 2024, was meant to close this long chapter. Yet, for many, it feels less like closure and more like another postponement — a gesture towards justice that stops sho

Lately I have been thinking a lot about Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest . I read it a few weeks ago and it has stayed with me ever since, especially this quote: “But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes, 'What are we doing?' and then, 'What must I do?'” That shift, from they to we , and finally to I , feels especial

Something is collapsing. Not just institutions or budgets — but belief. The scaffolding that once held the idea of humanitarianism  is cracking, and through the gaps, we can see the truth: aid, in its current form, is not saving lives. It is managing death. Capacity has disappeared. Across the world, three hundred and sixty-nine thousand people will die of malnutrition this year — not because food doesn’t exist, but because justice doesn’t. Six million children are out of sch

New York Times/One Piece Flag as Symbol of the Gen Z protest across countries Two billion strong: a quarter of humanity, the largest generation in history. Born between the late 1990s and early 2010s, they are the first true digital natives—raised in the glare of screens, fluent in simultaneity, living in many places at once. Heterogeneous and scattered, concentrated in Asia and Africa yet increasingly global in voice, they are redrawing language, consumption, politics—and, m

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