Photo source: India Today By Naveed Qazi, Editor, Globe Upfront Rishi Sunak became prime minister of the United Kingdom in October 2022 amid a serious political disorder. He has been UK’s third prime minister in less than seven weeks’ time. But nevertheless, as he is the first prime minister of colour in the United Kingdom, several political analysts thought that his win as prime minister is their Barack Obama moment. It made former cabinet minister, Sajid Javid remark: ‘Britain is the most successful multiracial democracy on Earth and proud of this historic achievement.’ Although Pankaj Mishra in an adverse criticism in his Guardian Oped called him just an upper caste Hindu who is against alcohol and beef eating, and that now snotty-nosed racists like him will try to present themselves as ‘purveyors of racial diversity.’ Sunak’s fate took a turn when he tried to replace Boris Johnson but he came narrowly behind Liz Truss in the summer of 2022. As Truss staged two embarrassing bu...

  Photo source: The Economist By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront After the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurd, who died in a coma, with skull injuries on a ventilator, for ‘inappropriate dress’ by the moral police in September, 2022,  the intellectual assertions of George Orwell become fitting for Iran’s new protest movement. He believed that revolutions didn’t come by chance, but by reason and that revolutionaries of the past become new tyrants, only to be toppled again. Iran’s foundations as a theocracy seem wobbling because this is not the first time in recent memory that Iranians are at odds with their leaders. In 2009, millions of adults took to the street over alleged fraud in the presidential election. It was called the Green Movement, which was largely urban and middle class. At that time, they rallied around two losing candidates, waved massive banners demanding democracy, and women wore headscarves, sashes, and paint in a vivid shade of green. As a cou...

  Photo source: The Economist By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront To find a solution for discontent among the masses, Chile embarked on a risky and courageous path, to rewrite the constitution in order to face myriad challenges. Quite lately, they did in October 2020, but it sadly has been rejected by the masses. It is mainly because maximum of the Chilean voters identify themselves as centrist. Its failure was something extraordinary, as rarely in the modern world has the public rebuffed a constitution-replacement project. It was also a pointer to watchers that Chile, at this moment in time, rejects a plurinational state, as autonomy would have been provided to its indigenous groups. If the constitution would have been drafted, it would have resulted in one of the most progressive constitutions in the world. According to a Foreign Policy Oped by Catherine Osborne, it would have paved the way for stronger protections for indigenous Chileans, empowered labour unions, given enviro...

  Photo source: Times of Israel By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront Giorgia Meloni is the first female prime minister Italy ever had, after swearing office with a coalition in October 2022. Unapologetically intense, she is also known as a political charmer in known circles. As a youth activist in the post-Fascist Italian Social Movement, she and her militant coterie had nicknames like Frodo and Hobbit, and they revered Lord of the Rings, and other works by British writer, J.R.R Tolkien. They also visited schools in character and huddled at the sounding of the horn of Boromir for cultural chats. She attended ‘Hobbit Camp’ and sang along with the extremist folk band Compagnia dell'Anello, or Fellowship of the Ring. At 19, she told a French Television that Mussolini was a great leader, and that he did everything right for the country. But, after being part of the national alliance in 2006, she changed her perception and believed that ‘dictators’ do make mistakes, and that Mussolini...