Long before the refugee and the humanitarian crisis of the post Arab Spring countries demasking the so called empowered politics … More
Category: Identity
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 Singapore is a hub of … More
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 … More
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 … More
Navigating migration through language
Language is the first barrier for a migrant as soon one lands up and clears passport control in an alien … More
Mobile, Mustafa and the Migrant in Singapore: Side-notes from the Globalization Narrative
It was a crowded Sunday evening (as usual) in Singapore’s Little India area at one of the major bus stops … More
