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Nationalism is Thailand's true religion
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 03/06/2015
» For the past month, Thai society has been in agreement that it's only right to push the desperate Muslim Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat people back out to sea and let fate take care of them.
Samaneri snubbed on Women's Day
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 11/03/2015
» Imagine you were offered a national award for your social work and ended up being humiliated at the presentation ceremony because you are a female monk.
Raw power won't silence forest people
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 12/11/2014
» Right after the May 22 coup, the junta vowed to kick-start land reform and help those who have no land. But after the junta's promise, a wave of forest crackdowns was launched with a vengeance.
Pray tell how prayer can cure society
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 24/09/2014
» When the clergy is rocked by sex and financial scandals on a daily basis, while corruption and use of raw power and violence dominate both our politics and social life, authorities recommend prayer as a way to buck these trends.
Buddhist pilgrimage with a difference
B Magazine, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 21/09/2014
» As a producer of dhamma TV programmes, Somnuek Khemacheeva has visited holy Buddhist sites in India several times as part of her work. As a devout Buddhist practitioner, however, she found the so-called “pilgrimages” that millions of Buddhist Thais make each year to India are quite spiritually superficial.
Teaching our children how to kowtow
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 23/07/2014
» No sooner had the sounds of military marches died down after the May 22 coup than the Education Ministry ordered all schools to play patriotic songs to please the junta.
Death penalty no cure for rape culture
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 09/07/2014
» What happened to 13-year-old Nong Kaem on the Surat Thani-Bangkok night train was every mother’s worst nightmare.
Cracking the religious wall of prejudice
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 04/06/2014
» How would you feel if you were invited to speak at an international conference, flew thousands of miles to be there, and were told at the very last minute before the opening ceremony that your talk had been banned?
Help teenage mums, don’t hurt them
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/03/2014
» What should we do when the teenage pregnancy rate in Thailand is among the highest in the world? Help them, or punish them for deviating from good-girl norms?
Our domestic violence shame won't go away
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 13/11/2013
» For most Thais, Monday was an emotionally tumultuous day because of the Preah Vihear ruling and the increasingly heated political situation that risks plunging the country into another round of violent conflict.