Delwar Hussain is an anthropologist based at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Boundaries Undermined: The Ruins of Progress on the Bangladesh/India Border (C Hurst, 2013). He is currently researching his next book, a social and cultural history of the city of Dhaka
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Published in: HomeBangladesh: contempt of court vs freedom of speechA blogger was convicted in Dhaka for his writing. A group of people who backed him in the press now faces the same...
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Published in: HomeBangladesh, in the ruins of the futureBangladesh's modern experience of industrial disaster highlights the fragile conditions in which many of its urban...
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Published in: HomeBangladesh: a state of impunity
A land whose citizens suffer injustice and cruelty without protection from law or state needs attention, says Delwar Hussain.
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Published in: HomeThe state of things: a London protest
A student protest in central London reveals the ugly face of an unaccountable government and the angry one of an...
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Published in: HomeThe white and pleasant land
A racist assault on unfamiliar ground provokes Delwar Hussain to reflect on why the British countryside looks less...
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