Climate ‘negotiations’ and the World in peril...


Farhad Mazhar
Tuesday 07 December 10

From Copenhagen to Cancun: Low expectation prevails

 The COP 16 of 2010 UNFCCC climate conference began in Cancun from 29th November for 12 days amidst much lower expectation of achieving significant commitment from the developed countries for lowering the emissions. After the failed climate conference of the COP 15, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009, there is not much to expect from Cancun. The struggle of th

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An Interview with Critical Political Scientist Norman Finkelstein


Lena Meari and Tanzeen Doha
Wednesday 13 October 10

Israeli Domination and the Workings of Ideology

Norman Finkelstein is one of the leading American critics of Israeli foreign policy. As a political scientist he wrote extensively on the exploitation of the holocaust as an ideological weapon and on the crisis in Palestinian occupied territories. He received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He has a long history of teaching political

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Financial Crisis & Garment Workers of Bangladesh


Farida Akhter
Monday 23 August 10

Financial Crisis led Garment Workers to work harder but less food to eat

This paper presented  by Farida Akhter at the workshop  'South Asia Regional Workshop on

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World Population Day 2010


Farida Akhter
Sunday 11 July 10

Reliable and Accurate Data on Population for Whom?

The 11th of July is World Population Day. The United Nations Population (UNFPA) has selected the theme "Everyone Counts", which according to them "will underscore the importance of data for development". The main issue raised through this theme is of "fostering an understanding of why reliable, disaggregated data is so crucial to progress and encourage peopl

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An Interview with Anti-Racist Feminist Sunera Thobani


Tanzeen R. Doha
Sunday 27 June 10

Mapping the Questions, Politics and Location of Resistance

Sunera Thobani teaches at the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of British Columbia. She is also past president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), Canada's largest feminist organization. The first woman of color to serve in this position, she made anti-imperialism and anti-racism central to the

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Lalon, (Con)textualized


Farhad Mazhar with DEPART
Wednesday 12 May 10

On Lalon: 'Divinity' is political

DEPART in its inaugural issue of January 2010 (Volume 1 Issue 1) published an interview of Farhad Mazhar. DEPART says, "Farhad Mazhar answers five questions on Lalon and his school of thought that forms the apex of artistic and philosophical practices centered on what once was Nadiya in the geographic sense and now has taken over the philosophical landscape of Bangladesh". We are reproducing the interview here,

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