city. In some parts of London, a lot of families from one country or background live in the same place. London’s famous Chinatown is in Soho. There are a lot of Jewish people in Golders Green in North London. And many Bengali people live on Brick Lane. Once upon a time, areas wh...
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation,Footnote1the downward trend in labor force participation (Bengali et al.,2013), high long-term unemployment (Kroft et al.,2014), stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts ...
Kathputli, which means puppetry in Hindi, has been a revered artform in Rajasthan for 1,000 years. Scholars believe it originated in a tribal community centered around the village of Nagaur, as a form of oral storytelling, passing along the history and ancestry of the local inhabitants. A ...
As a young student, Hind Makki recalls, she would call out others at the Islamic school she attended when some casually used an Arabic word meaning “slaves” to refer to Black people. “Maybe 85% of the time, the response that I would get from people ... is, ‘Oh, we don’t me...
But even as the Indian Establishment made sure that the Naxal way of life was obliterated from Naxalbari, the name acquired a symbolic meaning. It came to stand for the road to revolution in India. The ramifications of what happened at Naxalbari, what the poor peasants’ armed struggle over ...