Mahmudul H Sumon Sharing news on social media is the newest and perhaps one of the fastest-growing “rituals” of the world thanks to the internet regime. When introduced to the internet nearly two decades ago, an academic relative in the US, whom we would otherwise consider progressive, surprised me once by… Read More
Mahmudul H Sumon Anthropologies of Modernity (2005) is an important collection of essays by authors and researchers who have written on modernity, government, and questions of subjectivities in the present we all live in. I say ‘we all’ because the editor of the book, Jonathan Inda, makes it a point… Read More
Mahmudul H Sumon Our public universities are mostly engaged in building buildings. I mean concrete buildings! Even when a simple structure such as a bus stop is built in our universities, we see structures and designs with an abundance of rod and cement. If you try to remember some of… Read More
