This post is by filmmaker Vinod Raja. On the 25th May I was attacked while filming a peaceful rally by the Kue Kondhs, an Adivasi (tribal) community in the Indian state of Orrisa. They were marching against police attrocities and repression. For the past thirteen years the Kue Kondhs have been consistently opposing the plans [...]
On Monday the NY Times ran an op-ed pice by Armand Marie Leroi, an evolutionary developmental biologist, on the concept of “race.” This paper reproduces an argument which has been gaining wider currency as a result of genetic studies: that, contrary to what anthropologists have to say on the subject, perhaps “race” isn’t a purely [...]
This is the first of what I hope to be many such “invited” posts. by Laura Miller [invited author] The recent Washington Post article by Edward Cody (“A Language by Women, for Women, February 24, 2004) is representative of the type of misunderstandings that continues to be perpetuated in reporting on [Nushu].
As my site grows in popularity, I am hoping to leverage that attention by starting a new feature I call “invited blogging.” This is unlike traditional “guest blogging” (which I may do as well at some point), in that the people posting are not themselves bloggers. These are more like journal articles, in that the [...]