Looking at the debate surrounding modern technology today, aka artificial intelligence, the 19th-century debate over the use of machines in the textile industry looks very similar.
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Written in Sand: International Pressure and Girls’ Education Under the Taliban
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The Football World Cup cannot be reduced to a mere sporting competition. It is also a cultural resource and a site of social meaning-making.
Beyond “22 Players Chasing a Ball”: What the World Cup Really Means Read More »
In India, access to welfare benefits is increasingly being entangled with extensive documentation, household profiling, and citizenship-related verification, which is disproportionately affecting minorities and redefining the meaning of democracy.
Annapurna Bhandar and Its Politics of Discontents Read More »
The future of Afghan refugees in Pakistan is future shaped not by choice, but by necessity.
A Child’s Journey: From Kabul’s Dreams to Survival in Pakistan Read More »
The arrival of the Cockroach Janta Party in India has exposed the exhaustion of respectable civil society as the only authorised grammar of democratic grievance.
The real test for Bengal is not whether Muslims find a party to vote for but whether Bengal can still imagine Muslims as co-authors of its political future.
The Muslim Question and the New Political Order in Bengal Read More »
What does an astounding BJP win mean for West Bengal and for India?
Europe’s migration debates reveal fissures in Jewish intellectual discourse, forcing Europe to confront its layered history, identity, and sovereignty.
Narratives Wars: How Jewish Scholars in Berlin Interpret Europe’s Migration Debates Read More »
Bangladesh must introduce a decolonial turn in public universities by recognizing that knowledge is never neutral and by incorporating the importance of local histories, languages, and social realities into curricula.
Bangladesh’s newly elected government has a moral and legal responsibility to bring justice for Avijit Roy and the many others killed, exiled, and silenced at the hands of Islamist extremists who acted with impunity under the Awami League.
Justice for Avijit! Read More »
