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Immigrant Diasporas- a symbol for social resilience or vulnerability?
As an expat myself for half my life, in the Middle East and South East Asia, immigrants and their integration dynamics into their host societies has been one of my interests. In this Globalization2.0...
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Confessions of a Secular Pragmatist
In an age of rising religiosity and asserting majoratarian identities from beirut to banares to bandung, with religion driving political rhetoric in the developing world where most countries are...
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What is exactly ‘home’
Yesterday, i was watching a fabulous program on NDTV with Barkha Dutt interviewing an Egyptian-British Author and Dr. Shashi Tharoor and the discussion was on the notion of home. It did stir a hornets...
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From Ferguson to Sydney: interrogating media narratives
Extremely sad to hear the loss of a young cricketers life today. Prayers and condolences to his family. But i am wondering if the same global media hype would have been created if a Zimbabwe batsman...
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A Scribble in Singapore Diaries: Notes from the ‘Field’
An interesting incident made my week. Here is the anecdote: Today afternoon, when i went to the Indian food stall at the Arts Canteen here for some veg fare (i rarely eat Indian food during the week);...
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Mobile, Mustafa and the Migrant in Singapore: Side-notes from the...
It was a crowded Sunday evening (as usual) in Singapore’s Little India area at one of the major bus stops perpendicular to the iconic Mustafa Centre on Syed Alwi Lane, the retail cathedral of the South...
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Navigating migration through language
Language is the first barrier for a migrant as soon one lands up and clears passport control in an alien land. For a migrant from the hinterland of South Asia, English is familiar but not a friend; and...
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Why Mr Pai is Wrong?
The JNU+FTII+HCU episode is an attempt to reduce students as ’employees’ and ‘consumers’ and not nurture citizens who should understand and aspire for a better polity. Anyone with activist leanings is...
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Artists as Migrants in Singapore
I observe a lot of migrant related activity (if not activism) over the past one year in Singapore, with plenty of events, competitions and citizen centric engagements, which brings the migrant...
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Migrant Workers as Cultural Practitioners: Singapore’s new ‘in-thing’
Cultural Conversations at Dibashram Poet Dr Gwee Sui Li opening a May Day photo exhibition Mr. A K M Mohsin speaking about Dibashram’s work at Bicara Titian Budaya, a SG50 celebration event in...
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Why Social Justice work matters
In January 2015, I went on from being a petroleum industry consultant in Oman and India to a migration and health research lead position driving mini projects within a research program to bring issues...
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An unlikely Social Justice Narrative : ‘Kabali’ Tales
Kabali is a film that tries to engage the minority Tamil diaspora issues in Malaysia, especially the former plantation worker community who are disenfranchised from the mainstream racial politics in...
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Conversations with Cabbies: Delhi Edition
Just met a super courteous elderly Sikh man Sukhdev Singhji in Nehru Place after our biannual health screening, who drove us home. He broke bread with Sir Ben Kingsley during the making of Gandhi and...
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The Speciality of Nothingness
In this age of platforms and pipelines, of scale and splendor, with modernity’s elaborate invisible structures making us their unwilling subjects, it’s time to reclaim the quietness, calmness,...
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Identity and Migration
Long before the refugee and the humanitarian crisis of the post Arab Spring countries demasking the so called empowered politics of the EU nations and the U.S.; the Indian Subcontinent had one in 1947,...
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Christmas 2020.
Thankfully Christmas still is one in the Public Imagination instead of Good Governance Day. Merry Christmas! Seasons Mall in Pune
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