With the rise of the BLM movement & spurt of anti-colonial discourse in Western countries, a debate has sparked around the British history of colonialism & slavery, & the demand for confronting unpalatable aspects of colonialism has gained momentum.
William Dalrymple, an author of several books on the history of British colonialism in India, has suggested that the United Kingdom should place its statues of imperial heroes in a museum of British colonialism. He proposed that the British government, in order to confront the sins of its past, should build a museum of colonialism with these expelled statues. A noteworthy example of such a model is the Museum of British Colonialism, established in 2018 with a focus on the colonial history of the UK & Kenya, primarily featuring the multiple insurgencies from 1952–60.
As opposed to this, many critics & scholars have argued that existing Western museums should be decolonized in their own manner. This involves the return of cultural artifacts back to their country of origin, purging statues of colonial era figures, alternatives to definitive restitution such as long-term loans, or atleast specifically removing culturally insensitive objects from display, etc.

Established in 1918, Haaretz is one of Israel’s leading international news organizations and is their longest-running newspaper currently in print. Haaretz is Israel's only left-leaning newspaper. It publishes a Hebrew newspaper and an English edition every day in print and on a range of digital platforms.

Punjabi culture is on the one hand a deeply syncretic culture, and on the other, deeply influenced by the lasting horrors of the Partition that continue to haunt them in the present. There's been a steady decline in the study of Punjabi literature, even as Punjabi remains the primary language of communication within families and society. Despite the language's erosion within the educational and public sector, there has been a recent surge in the number of Punjabi women writing in the language. These poets approach these conflicts, including those of the Partition, from the universal perspectives of human dignity and rights, foregrounding the humanity that is common to all of us. Qissa is a fluid folk tradition popular within rural and illiterate Punjabi communities. Punjabi women use this oral form to sing about their experiences from a specifically gendered perspective. They weave scraps of songs about sex and conflict, specifically exploring the Partition, wherein they tease men about their cowardice in bed and satirize the men's role in inflicting violence on women from their own families during the Partition.

The demographics of Iraq are broadly constituted by the Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish groups. The Shia sect is in the majority, forming almost 65% of the population, with the Sunni sect forming a significant minority comprising as much as 30% of the population. However, under the Sunni leader Saddam Hussein's rule, the Sunni minority became the politically powerful class, with Hussein deprioritizing the Shia majority. Post the American Occupation of Iraq in 2003 that deposed Hussein, Iraq's political order has functioned through the Muhasasa system in an attempt to provide proportional representation to Iraq’s various ethno-sectarian groups in cabinet positions.
Under the Muhasasa system, Iraq's political system functions on a "spoils basis" for the distribution of government jobs, offices, and perks. A spoils system is a practice in which a political party — after winning an election — rewards its supporters, friends, and family for its victory with these perks to further incentivize them to work for the party.
Critics have pointed out how the Muhasasa system led to the recentering of power within a tight coalition of Shia parties, with residual influence being shared with Sunni and Kurdish groups.
Over the years, this arrangement has made Iran, another Shia-majority state, an important presence in Iraq's politics as the sponsor of Shia parties.

The Transparency database is a robust, freely available database that allows anybody to check the current emotional state of any being around them. Individuals simply need to go online and enter the details of a person to find an objective score of how someone is feeling in a specific instant. For example, others might perceive that a person around them is feeling a happiness level of 6 or feeling angry at level 9. The database only reflects present emotions and offers no additional information about context and cause.

Pride has been a rallying cry of the queer movement since Stonewall. However, queer theorists have argued that using pride as the fulcrum of queer advocacy risks taming queerness into a normative social identity by repressing its "undignifed and uncomfortable" aspects. Instead, queer theorists like David M. Halperin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Elspeth Probyn have argued the necessity of "embracing shame" in the queer movement, which can help queer people get to know themselves better, allow self-reflection, and can foster critical connections between people, otherwise not possible.