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Playlist for my radio show
Early Dementia (Music) with sharif 08.17.2009 06:00AM to 09:00AM CST on http://www.weft.orgRead more... ) -
Playlists on Twitter
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Community Radio in Bangladesh
Good news on the Community radio front in Bangladesh. This is a news report from Panos South Asia:
http://www.panosradiosouthasia.org/prsa/prsaarchives.php?id=66
In this edition, we are in Dhaka, Bangladesh where a sudden rise in the operation of ( Read more... ) -
The fragility of homeland
As we hopelessly witness the carnage in Gaza it is probably futile and somewhat arrogant to philosophize and write anything. Between Islamist and Zionist agenda children and innocent lives are wasted and we carry on blogging and signing our petitions.But sometime we do have to write and survive, it is better than silence. Maybe we have to look ( Read more... ) -
Good Luck!
BBC has a nice summary of the tomorrow's election in Bangladesh.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7798187.stm
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A Debt Foletold
From Koranteng's Toli ( Read more... ) -
Zizek and Milbank!
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11672
The Monstrosity of Christ
Paradox or Dialectic?
Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank
Edited by Creston Davis
What matters is not so much that Žižek is endorsing a demythologized, disenchanted ( Read more... ) -
Ochin Pakhi: The Unknown Bard
Rezwan at the Global Voices has some summary of a recent controversy regarding Lalon's statue:
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/10/19/bangladesh-sculptures-bigots-and-bloggers/
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Mahmoud Darwish 1942-2008
Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet died died Saturday in Houston. He was 67.
Who am I, without Exile ( Read more... ) -
Off to Boston
I am off to Boston to attend the ASA conference. My paper is on the last day but I am excited about some of the sessions coming up in the next few days. It will be a crazy few days. Thu I am going to the Junior Theorist Symposium and then if I have time, I have plans to scour the bookstores around Harvard Square. It is pretty amazing!