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# poDcast 12: a week on openDemocracy
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcast12-4483jsp/
- Published: 2007-03-28T23:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:55:39.000Z
- Author: Open democracy
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:37

Welcome to the **openDemocracy** poDcast.

Six weeks into a US troop surge in Iraq, openDemocracy columnist [Paul Rogers](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Paul%5FRogers.jsp) analyses its effects and explains why the Bush Administration cannot allow the strategy to fail.

Our technology writer [Becky Hogge](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Becky%5FHogge.jsp) on data trails - why tracking our daily actions will lead to a loss of privacy unless access to information is better protected by the law

Indian filmmaker Mira Nair talks to [Maryam Maruf](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Maryam%5FMaruf.jsp) about the diversity of Indian culture and why the Bengali diaspora is the focus of her latest film, *The Namesake*.

Plus, [Rob Cawston](https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Rob%5FCawston.jsp) reviews the documentary *Camden 28* from the Human Rights Watch Film festival in London.

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25.03 mins

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