Hefazat-e-Jamaat, Nothing Else : On the Recent Developments in Bangladesh
Kafila, May 14, 2013 “Talibaner aar ek naam – hefazat-e-Islam!” (Another name for Taliban, Hefazat-e-Islam) – Slogan raised at Shahbagh square To such a degree has Religion fuelled conflict, complicated politics, retarded social…
Naya Pakistan, an old fable: Ayesha Siddiqa
Kafila, May 10, 2013. Guest post by AYESHA SIDDIQA: The renowned television anchor Quatrina Hosain was in tears. A day after the incident of her being sexually assaulted at a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)…
Bangladesh, Global Capitalism, and the Garment Industry
As the death toll continues to rise in Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster yet, we reproduce a previously published article on the global garment industry taking the examples of Bangladesh and Argentina. Readers should…
Turkey condemns “blasphemy”, Fazil Say given 10-month sentence
Source: Reset DOC After long legal proceedings involving the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and novelist Elif Şafak, once again Turkey hits the headlines with news of a court order against one of the…
Why censorship is the greatest threat to India: Michael Edison Hayden
Source: Kafila Guest post by MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN: An editorial published earlier this month in India Today bemoans India’s willingness to placate religious fundamentalists through artistic censorship. The author, Peter V. Rajsingh, makes…
Burma: the forgotten nightmare of the Rohingya Muslims
Source: Reset DOC Last month more than 40 people were killed and a state of emergency was proclaimed and during the past few weeks 13 more were killed, all young people. The dead…
What the post-racials are looking for
Source: Africa is a Country April marks the springtime festival of fertility and harvest, Holi, which is celebrated throughout northern India. Because Holi is a yearly event that includes a large amount of…
The Bastar Land Grab: An Interview with Sudha Bharadwaj
Source: Kafila This intervew with SUDHA BHARADWAJ of Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha was conducted by JUSTIN PODUR in Raipur on 5 March 2013 JP: As a lawyer and an activist, how do you see…
Ask Boaventura #01 – Castes
Question: How does one identify ´abyssal line´ in lieu of the Gandhi-Ambedkar Debate on granting special status to the backward castes in India? (Dhruv Pande, ALICE Team, from India) You can also send…
