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The Silent COP and the Slowly Vanishing Future

The Silent COP and the Slowly Vanishing Future

Something unsettling happened in Brazil. After two weeks of bargaining, stalling, corridor whispering and outright obstruction, COP30 ended without a single mention of the world's largest source of the climate crisis. The final agreement avoided the word fossil altogether. Not oil. Not gas. Not coal. Language was treated

Disastrous Disasters – Again! Some Thoughts about Sri Lankan Experiences on Cyclone and Floods

Disastrous Disasters – Again! Some Thoughts about Sri Lankan Experiences on Cyclone and Floods

Sri Lanka and its people are not new to natural hazards. Droughts, floods, landslides, epidemics and many other hazards are standard features of the recent history of the Island. The current predicament of the country due to Cyclone Ditwah, which unleashed catastrophic flooding and landslides, is the latest disaster people

(Dis-)Located Memory: 10 years of the Balkan Route

(Dis-)Located Memory: 10 years of the Balkan Route

I. From the beginning of what was mistakenly called a refugee crisis, one event remains crucial to understanding the performative dispersion of power that governs borders. On August 22, 2015, due to the failure of other measures to control border porosity, a state of crisis was declared in North Macedonia’

Can the colonisers decolonise themselves?

Can the colonisers decolonise themselves?

The immediate answer to this question is no. Cultural transit, translation and transformation are sustained in networks historically constructed in asymmetrical relations of power. Despite the illusions of liberal humanists, the exchange is never equal. Even the currency is rarely common. Presenting as a universal template the philosopher exchanging views

The Next Chapter: Building Bangladesh’s Democratic Future

The Next Chapter: Building Bangladesh’s Democratic Future

In August 2024, Bangladesh’s streets erupted with a force beyond the control of any political party. Students, workers, and ordinary citizens dismantled Sheikh Hasina’s fifteen-year rule, built on electoral fraud, repression, and a web of loyalists embedded in the state. Lives were lost, families disappeared, and the scale

An Unquiet Silence: Kashmir and the Rituals of Forgetting

An Unquiet Silence: Kashmir and the Rituals of Forgetting

The valley bleeds again, and the script writes itself. A militant attack. A volley of accusations. Troops amass. Politicians thunder. Nuclear nightmares are summoned like ancient gods, wielded for effect. And once the show is over, the curtain falls, leaving the stage empty and the people forgotten. But Kashmir is

The Return of the Scaffold: Trump’s Deportation Theatre and the Politics of Spectacle

The Return of the Scaffold: Trump’s Deportation Theatre and the Politics of Spectacle

The scaffold has returned—not as an instrument of justice, but as a stage for vengeance. In Donald Trump’s America, the state no longer merely punishes; it performs. And the audience, whether horrified or thrilled, is part of the script. Michel Foucault warned us about this. In Discipline and