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Let us celebrate Chaitra Sangkranti
The word ‘sangkranti’ implies the moment of transition that has no beginning and no end; the notion is not linear, but cyclical. The sun moves through space and every month crosses each of the signs of the zodiac, known as rashi, and completes twelve cycles of the year. So there is no ‘new’ year but return of the cycle, or the ‘chakra’. In the cyclic movement, every point is literally the end of the cycle as well as the beginning. There is no new beginning, and therefore no ‘past’ in the linear sense of the term. The word ‘sangkranti’ captu (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
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Envioronment, Ecology, Biodiversity
Let us celebrate Chaitra Sangkranti
The word ‘sangkranti’ implies the moment of transition that has no beginning and no end; the notion is not linear, but cyclical. The sun moves through space and every month crosses each of the signs of the zodiac, known as rashi, and completes twelve cycles of the year. So there is no ‘new’ year but return of the cycle, or the ‘chakra’. In the cyclic movement (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Media & Culture
Mass Line, Repressive Media, and State Terror
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” – Malcolm X Poet and writer Farhad Mazhar is not intimidated by the propaganda campaign being orchestrated by a partisan section of the media community. It is engaged in (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Women's Issues
Eve’s Monologue undermines women’s movement
Every day we have to read or hear about some rape and also killing after rape occurring in different areas of the country. Rape and killings are direct physically attack on a woman’s body but violence against women is more than that. These other forms of violence caused by social, economic and cultural factorsand various development policies are often ignored not because that they are not (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Human Rights
BANGLADESH: State's unpardonable failures deserves credible investigarion
The entire governmental machinery of Bangladesh, with its retinue of law-enforcement units, intelligence agencies, and security forces, has totally and abysmally failed to protect minority communities in the South Eastern region of the country. A large number of monasteries, temples, houses and establishments of the Buddhist communities of the area, and even those belonging to some of the Hindu (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Bangladesh Politics
Climate ‘negotiations’ and the World in peril...
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 th (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Interviews
An Interview with Critical Political Scientist Norman Finkelstein
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 hi (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Worker & Industry
Financial Crisis & Garment Workers of Bangladesh
Garment Workers work harder but less food to eat This paper presented by Farida Akhter at the workshop 'South Asia Regional Workshop on Global Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Women: A Human Rights Perspective'; it took place on 22-23 August 2010 in Delhi, India and organised by UNIFEM, PWES (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Population Cntrol
World Population Day 2010
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 (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
Economy & Development
Budget 2010-11
Performing 'Digitally' and in 'Shadows" 'Purana Kashundi Ghata' Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith presented the National Budget for 2010-11 fiscal year digitally in the parliament on June 10, using power point for the first time in Bangladesh. His digital performance, (Read This Article)--(ALL OTHER ARTICLES)--
