Articles by Nanki Chawla
Deputy Web Editor (2009/10)
Nanki has written 30 articles for Nouse
The Human Environment
By Nanki Chawla — June 7, 2011
Environmental rights are usually considered on a separate plane from mainstream human rights law. They don’t fit neatly into a single human rights category; global conversations relating the two fields now speak of the ‘greening’ of human rights law
Tell Me No Lies
By Nanki Chawla — March 18, 2011
Nanki Chawla looks at the contentious topic of the sex-offenders register, in the new Nouse human rights blog
Wukang Town and the Bamboo Mountains
By Nanki Chawla — May 12, 2010
On our second weekend in Hangzhou, we were taken on a trip by the Uni to the Bamboo Mountains, Wukang Town and Anji
Norman Rea Gallery’s Light Themed Summer Show
By Nanki Chawla — May 11, 2010
This year the Norman Rea Gallery will be launching their summer programme with an Academy Style Summer show opening Monday week 4, May 17th
Shanghai: tea scammers, skyscrapers and ballroom dancing!
By Nanki Chawla — April 27, 2010
On our first (and only free) weekend in Hangzhou, we made plans to go to Shanghai
The romance of the Song Dynasty
By Nanki Chawla — April 24, 2010
On our fourth night in Hangzhou, we went to what our teachers called a “theme park”, although there wasn’t a rollercoaster in sight
Mandarin, Tai-ji and Wushu
By Nanki Chawla — April 19, 2010
I seem to continually forget that the main purpose of coming to China, beyond learning about the culture and to be honest, just coming, was to learn some mandarin.
Clowns and Conga Lines
By Nanki Chawla — April 12, 2010
Due to popular request or rather just the one, here’s a blog about Chinese clubbing.
The Trivialities of Travelling
By Nanki Chawla — April 6, 2010
Ni Hâo! After more than a week of being on the Study China Programme, I’ve finally made it to my laptop in an attempt to scribble a quick post
Pagodas and Peking Duck?
By Nanki Chawla — March 24, 2010
When I initially imagined writing this blog about my trip to China, I thought about calling it “Land of the Rising Sun”, until I came to the realisation that that’s Japan
York breakthrough in anti-malaria reasearch
By Nanki Chawla — March 16, 2010
A team of scientists in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, led by Professor Dianna Bowles and Professor Ian Graham, have made a genetic breakthrough in accelerating anti-malaria development, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Wit
By Nanki Chawla — February 7, 2010
“Nothing but a breath – a comma – separates life from life everlasting. It’s very simple really: it’s a comma, a pause.”
Rally to be organised against ultra vires laws
By Leigh Clarke and Nanki Chawla — January 26, 2010
YUSU are set to be pressurised by the United Nations Association (UNA) so that societies can work around the current ultra vires charity laws, which restrict society fundraising
The Swiss ban on minarets is futile
By Nanki Chawla — December 15, 2009
57.5% of the Swiss people have voted to ban the construction of minarets, towers that adorn Muslim mosques. Consequently, Switzerland has been criticised by religious leaders from around the world
An Other Once Upon a Time
By Nanki Chawla — December 7, 2009
Production: An Other Once Upon a Time Venue: Drama Barn Rating: **** Lin Mingyu’s production of An Other Once Upon a Time was a surreal and fascinating experience. The play took two original Grimm’s fairytales, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, scripted by Carol Ann Duffy, and performed them in the [...]


