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Bangalore-based Rashmi Vasudeva's journalism has appeared in many Indian and international publications over the past decade. A features writer with over nine years of experience heading a health and fitness supplement in a mainstream Indian newspaper, her niche areas include health, wellness, fitness, food, nutrition and Indian classical Arts.
Her articles have appeared in various publications including Mint-Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, Deccan Herald (mainstream South Indian newspaper), Smart Life (Health magazine from the Malayala Manorama Group of publications), YourStory (India's media technology platform for entrepreneurs), Avantika (a noir arts and theatre magazine), ZDF (a German public broadcasting company) and others.
In 2006, she was awarded the British Print-Chevening scholarship to pursue a short-term course in new-age journalism at the University of Westminster, U.K. With a double Masters in Globalisation and Media Studies from Aarhus Universitet (Denmark), University of Amsterdam and Swansea University in Wales, U.K., she has also dabbled in academics, travel writing and socio-cultural studies. Mother to a frisky toddler, she hums 'wheels on the bus' while working and keeps a beady eye on the aforementioned toddler's antics.
Global Politics: Is This The Fall Of The Center?
A timely podcast that is asking all the right questions, this episode of Vox Wordly looks at why this is the age of the fringe all over the world, be it Brazil, India or America. It also looks at why it is time the world dusted out (in)famous concepts such as Fukuyama's ‘end of history’ and Huntington's ‘clash of civilizations’ and re-examine them with a 21st century magnifying glass.
Hosts Jennifer Williams, Alex Ward and guest Alina Polyakova hold an enlivening albeit worrying discussion about recent worldwide developments such as the presidential election in Brazil, the Trump ‘situation’, the announcement of imminent resignation by Angela Merkel, whom Alex calls the ‘vanguard of centrist politics’, and the rise of anti-immigrant movements all over Europe. Is it a sign of the so-called status-quo leaders losing their grip? Is it really the retreat of globalization? Are we witnessing the full collapse of centrist leaderships all over the globe?
The podcast goes on to provide some background to how the present-day liberal world order came to be. The rise of the European Union from the 'ashes' of World War II with the purpose of defusing global tensions and stabilizing economies is taken up, as is the Bretton Woods agreement that led to the establishment of global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank.
Ultimately, the podcast wonders if the fringe will become mainstream and if the post-war order will be replaced by a force much more nationalistic. Whether this really happens or not, what is certainly clear is that populist movements are unlikely to go away anytime soon. The world better find itself a new lens to study them, and soon.
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