What We Think When We Think About (Interpersonal) Violence
The link between the structural and personal is continually at risk of getting obscured in favour of an individualist reading of interpersonal violence.
1y ago
The drama around Hero Alom exposes our culture of classism
Our classist sensibilities cannot handle a Hero Alom singing Tagore songs and getting attention for it.
1y ago
US Elections: Representation matters but it is not enough
Before the elections, a five-year-old boy asked his mother, my friend, if he would ever be able to be the President of the United States because of the colour of his Brown skin. This is a question that American girls, too, have been asking their parents forever.
3y ago
Magical thinking in the time of Covid-19
I don’t remember exactly when I heard about the 2019 version of coronavirus, Covid-19, but I do know it was during my travels in Asia this past January.
4y ago
Magical thinking in the time of Covid-19
Over the past few weeks, I have heard variations of “I don’t know why but I don’t think Bangladesh will be affected by Covid-19 in the way that other countries have been.”
4y ago
Sexual Violence: Looking inward and thinking out loud
Every single day, a rapist is reported. Every. Single. Day. Let that sink in.
4y ago
Election Day Hoopla
Election Day in Bangladesh is usually a festive occasion. The weather is wonderfully crisp. We are in our Friday best. With friends and
5y ago
Teen protest movement demanding safe roads: Their allies, adversaries, and others
The last time I heard of a student protest movement with secondary school children was in 2011. Secondary school children had joined university students in Chile to denounce their neoliberal education system that had commodified education, expanding social and income inequality between the rich and the poor.
5y ago
July 30, 2016
Cap-Dem-Rel
Capitalism prioritses policies that promote efficiency in resource allocation, while democracy espouses ideas of equality and fairness.
July 20, 2016
Has the world gone mad?
To understand the violent world in which we live today, it is important to understand that with neoliberal policies came rapid globalisation (that fostered international trade, privatisation of national institutions, deregulation, and competition) and that includes, as we can see, globalisation of terror and acts of terror.
July 11, 2016
Untangling our collective chaos
We're not new to disproportionate experiences based on class. So when class dynamics unfolded in the aftermath of the attacks, we yet again remained silent.
January 8, 2016
Ma: Telling stories through shapes
Life, death, and everything in between – is what I see when I look at the paintings of my mother, Shameem Subrana.
January 4, 2016
2015: The Year of the Cat
45 percent of all videos uploaded to YouTube in 2015 were of cats or other pets. Without demand there is no supply, and this huge supply of cat videos perhaps speaks to some mysterious acute need.
December 11, 2015
Oh Pakistan!
It is really not a surprise that Pakistan would make a statement which pretty much echoes what the research has been revealing all along: that Pakistan justifies the war crimes; that Pakistan will not take responsibility for the harm they inflicted on an entire people in 1971.
December 1, 2015
Of war criminals and hypocrites
The death penalty is inhuman and inhumane. What I don't understand, however, is how the UN can call for its abolition in Bangladesh while it [the death penalty]thrives around the world – from neighboring India to the land of the free (the US).
November 25, 2015
The odd shadow lurking between cognition and behaviour
In a recent academic paper titled “Men's Report of Domestic Violence Perpetration in Bangladesh: Correlates From a Nationally...
November 16, 2015
Hope is hollow on its own
I have been silent for a while. Because I refuse to react to the brutality of the world around us, I prefer to respond. And I wanted to wait till things passed.
September 10, 2015
A case against (only) watching cat videos
Children who witness violence are more likely to mimic that act in situations they deem appropriate as violence becomes normalised. The same principle applies to other issues: corruption, murder, lying, ill-treatment of people.
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