Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta

Breaking up is hard to do….

April 13, 2008
By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta

Ships are living creatures. Ask any sailor and he will agree and he will further say that ships are feminine. That combination of steel, paint, oil, blood, sweat, tears, sand, sea, wind and waves can be nothing but feminine. But unlike ladies, when ships reach the end of their lives, they are treated rather...
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A review of the Organisation of Islamic Countries report on Islamophobia

April 3, 2008
By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
A review of the Organisation of Islamic Countries report on Islamophobia

Islamophobia exists and is steadily getting worse. A phobia is a strong irrational or powerful fear and dislikes of something, in this case, the religion of Islam. This phobia has attained such strong levels, that the Organisation of Islamic Countries has commissioned and recently released an Annual Report on Islamophobia. On reading the report,...
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Using refugees for your own purposes

March 2, 2008
By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
Using refugees for your own purposes

I have already written about refugees before but this timeĀ  I want to look at what do the Bangladeshi, Kashmiri, Tamil, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh Refugees in India, Kosovo Albanian Refugees, Palestinian Refugees in various Arab countries, Afghan refugees in Pakistan and Iran, Hutu refugees in Zaire, Cambodian refugees in Thailand,...
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The House that Al Saud built

February 10, 2008
By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
The House that Al Saud built

The House of Al Saud is built on land which is criss-crossed with tectonic fault lines which are almost constantly moving. And the al Saud way of handling these fault lines is not to improve the house by making it flexible, open and earthquake proof but to try to pour...
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Is money the only difference between journalists and bloggers?

January 29, 2008
By Dr. Bhaskar Dasgupta
Is money the only difference between journalists and bloggers?

There is this issue which I keep on stumbling over and which seems to be agitating so many people who are in the publishing business. There seem to be two camps, the first camp is the journalist camp and the second seems to be the bloggers camp. And boyo, do...
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