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Author: Rabbil Sikdar

Writer, researcher, leftist. Interests: Islamophobia, south Asian politics and affairs, inequality and far-right extremism.
Posted on 25th Nov 202025th Nov 2020

Is France’s fight against extremism criminalising Islam as a whole?

If there is a saying that serves as a snapshot for the times we live in, it’s Ibn Khaldun’s remark that “the past resembles the future more than one drop…

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Posted on 19th Oct 2020

The nostalgia of watching classic Bollywood films

“Dearly beloved. Look how the distances have closed. I am here, I am here, I am here.” The opening lines for Veer-Zaara’s iconic “Main Yahaan Hoon” are enough to sweep…

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Posted on 10th Sep 202010th Sep 2020

What will the gentrification of Brick Lane do to the British Bengali community

The journey to a new country for a new life is often a frightening one. The weather can be very different, your stomach responds differently to the new foods, and…

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Posted on 26th Aug 202026th Aug 2020

Why Avatar: The Last Airbender is loved by fans to this day

In a time marked by a frightening global pandemic and a social uprising in America, the search for the warm glow of something nostalgic, familiar, and reassuring is understandable. Yip…

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Posted on 20th Jul 2020

Are current conversations on racism achieving anything?

It is difficult not to feel that the reaction to George Floyd’s murder has been about cosmetics. We have been treated to woke capitalism as corporations gorged themselves on a…

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Posted on 27th Jun 202027th Jun 2020

What Liverpool’s long-awaited victory means to me and my family

At last, the storm had ended and there was a golden sky for Liverpool. The title was decided by an old enemy against a contemporary one. At the end of…

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Posted on 17th Jun 202017th Jun 2020

Are criticisms of the race inequality commission’s Munira Mirza valid?

A storm of anger at racial inequality and injustice might have gripped America, but no-one from the British government could say that they haven’t felt some of it too. One…

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Posted on 12th Jun 202025th Jun 2020

How can we address anti-blackness in Desi spaces?

The death of George Floyd in Minnesota at the hands of the white police officer who knelt on his neck for nine minutes reopened a festering wound in America’s social…

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