Asia in Global Affairs (AGA) is a non-profit, independent forum for research, set up in 2017. It aims at conducting research on wide ranging global issues with an interdisciplinary and transnational approach.
Kali Puja..
Kali Puja is held on the night of the New Moon in the Bengali month...
October 28, 2019AGA Admin
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Deepawali..
Deepawali or Diwali is the festival of lights: deep signifying "light" and avali "a row" connoting "a row of...
October 28, 2019AGA Admin
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Zionism, music and Identi..
Music played an important role in the spread of Zionism in the late19th and early-20th...
October 21, 2019AGA Admin
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Indian Chinese..
The history of India’s Chinese community is part of a larger global narrative about the...
October 21, 2019AGA Admin
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Euphrates—the cradle of..
Euphrates River, Turkish FıratNehri, Arabic Nahr Al-Furāt, the longest river in southwest Asia, is 1,740 miles (2,800 km)...
October 14, 2019AGA Admin
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Kurdistan..
Kurdistan (“Land of the Kurds”), Arabic Kurdistān and Persian Kordestān, refers to an area of Kurdish settlement that roughly...
October 14, 2019AGA Admin
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Delectably yours—Jews a..
Today, only about 20 Jewish descendants of the original Baghdadi Jews remain in Kolkata. But there is...
September 30, 2019AGA Admin
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Devi/Mother Goddess in pr..
The perception of Devi or Divine Feminine power as Mother Goddess is an integral part...
September 30, 2019AGA Admin
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“Mahanagar”/The Big C..
Mahanagar, Satyajit Ray’s enduring masterpiece from 1963exposed the hypocrisies of the middle class Bengali society...
September 23, 2019AGA Admin
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“Gett: The Trial of Viv..
The Israeli feature film “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem” released in 2014 created a...
September 23, 2019AGA Admin
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Fish and forests of Amazo..
There are few places in the world where the aquatic and arboreal lives share a...
September 16, 2019AGA Admin
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“The Other Mother”..
‘The Other Mother’ by Carol Schaefer is considered a classic in adoption literature. It is...
September 16, 2019AGA Admin
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Glacial Lake Outburst Flo..
A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a release of meltwater from a moraine or...
September 09, 2019AGA Admin
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Climate mapping of East A..
Climate experts have acknowledged that the climate in East Asia—a geopolitical space consisting of the...
September 09, 2019AGA Admin
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Satya-Pir/Satya-Narayan..
The cult of Satya-Pir, one of the popular beliefs and practices that crept into the...
September 02, 2019AGA Admin
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