by Mohamed Nanabhay Early this week a fire broke out at a labour camp in Doha, Qatar, which destroyed the belongings of 600 workers. Labour camps in the Gulf states are usually large single sex-segregated dormitories that house hundreds of migrant workers who earn around $220 a month. The Gulf Times broke the story with […]
Remembering Aimé Césaire
– by Jennifer Brea … when my turn comes into the air I will raise up a cry so violent that I will spatter the sky utterly and by my shredded branches and by the insolent jet of my solemn wounded bole I shall command the islands to exist – from “Lost Body”, by Aimé Césaire, trans. […]
`Garden House’. Once home to Robert Clive
My recent visit to this famous building of Robert Clive,popularly known as "Garden House",left me spell bound.The beauty of this has been destroyed due neglect over the years.I couldn’t refrain myself from collecting information and writing about this great structure here on Groundreport. THIS is the house in which Robert Clive lived while in Cuddalore. […]
Voices We Do Not Hear
The people of Majuli are angry. For years, their land , the world’s largest riverine island is having its land mass eroded by the Brahmaputra and no one is doing any thing about it. Not even the Prime Minister who represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha. And Majuli is not just another back water island; […]
Essence of Sport
Now that I am back, I feel recharged and have a revitalized perspective about sports. Part of my trip to Argentina was to really find out about the sports culture there. To my amazement there were a great deal of passion very much like there is here in Bristol. When I arrived in […]
Musharraf Not Going to Quit
The perceived isolation of President Pervez Musharraf and his sidelining after the swearing-in of the new government has not happened in a haphazard way but is the result of a well-thought-out strategy, one of his aides said on Friday. "It was decided a long time ago that Musharraf would take a backseat after the 2008 […]
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