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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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Posted on 22nd May 202022nd May 2020

Who are the left-behind Biharis in Bangladesh?

The Bangladeshi Liberation War in 1971 was not just the beginning of a nation but has been the foundation of an identity, a story passed down the generations of a…

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Posted on 6th May 20206th May 2020

Forgotten History: Tape Letters and the oral legacy of Potwari in Britain

In Ashton, a small town east of Manchester, a family was rifling through cassette tapes of their late father’s naats, when they found a cassette filled with recorded messages which…

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Posted on 15th Apr 202015th Apr 2020

Covid-19 has not been a “leveller”

At the time of writing this, the death toll in the UK for covid-19 has reached over 10,000. In just under two months, thousands of lives have gone, and the…

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Posted on 4th Apr 20204th Apr 2020

Labour can fix its mistakes with Starmer

As the sun finally set on Jeremy Corbyn’s doomed leadership, it rises again for the Labour Party, and rises with Keir Starmer. Four election defeats and three leaders later, Labour…

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Posted on 26th Mar 2020

Reflections from a British Bangladeshi on Independence Day

March is considered to be springtime, the birth of new things and the start of hope and growth. For the Bengali people, it is a fitting month for the birth…

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Posted on 9th Mar 202023rd Mar 2020

India’s treatment of Muslims runs parallel to Islamophobia in Myanmar

A season of brutal anti-Muslim violence has erupted in India. Shocking scenes of mob-inspired street carnage, police brutality and vandalism have swept through the largest democracy. The scale of the…

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