“RAWA protest rally against Taliban in Peshawar April28-1998” by RAWA – http://www.rawa.org. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
This week in the Internet:
Game-Changer: The Rise and Expansion of the Global University
Paper, pens and power between empires in north India, 1750–1850
Evicted & Abandoned: How The World Bank Broke Its Promise To Protect The Poor
Sufism won’t solve Pakistan’s problems
AUDIO: Before the Drone: Genealogy of Aerial Imagery and its Militarization
The living dead: The land of ‘martyrs’
Lal Singh Dil, the lonely revolutionary
The moral hypocrisy of American Muslims for Palestine on the Armenian Genocide
This week at Tanqeed:
A Never-Ending Ordeal for South Waziristan’s IDPs by Bilal Mehsud — “Our blood is cheaper and is for sale everywhere”. Interviews by Tanqeed reveal that the vast majority of IDPs remain displaced with no clarity on when they might be able to leave their makeshift homes in camps across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Crafts of Indian Streets at our Invisible Cities blog — This photo essay aims to bring into the spotlight some of those invisible and seemingly old-school crafts and occupations that are carried out on our cities’ streets everyday – many of which often go unnoticed and are now being affected by newer urban development paradigms in Indian cities.
