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Sanhati: Fighting Neoliberalism in Bengal and Beyond I work and write for an alternative, left news and analysis site called Sanhati. My writings are available here. Vidya Ashram: Towards a People's Knowledge Movement Since 2005 I am associated with Vidya Ashram, an autonmous collective which is trying to build a people's knowlege movement. See website for more. Check out some videos of interviews I did last year at Sarnath, Varanasi, where Vidya Ashram is based. Edu-Factory: Conflicts and Transformation of the University "As was the factory, so is the University..." a few years ago the Edu-Factory collective began as a collection of people interested in the politics of knowledge. The collective has expanded beyond Europe and I am one of its members. World Peace Congress: Only Connect... In 2006-2007, along with many other wonderful people, I was involed in organizing an international gathering of scholars, activists, social entrepreneurs, religious figures and so on, with the aim to start a cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary, inter-faith Dialog. The first meeting was in Salt Lake City, Utah. The meetings continue (the most recent one was in Thailand) though I am no longer actively involved. Please visit the official site for more information. Since moving to the University of Massachuetts at Amherst, I have become active in the Amherst-based Center for Popular Economics. This is a non-profit, collective of political economists whose aim is to demystify the Economy and to train activists and others working towards social and economic justice in various communities as well as nationally and internationally. The week-long CPE summer institute is an excellent forum for activists to familiarize themselves with many important issues and arguments to do with privatization, IMF and World Bank, poverty and disparity, inflation and unemployment, environmental economics, race, gender and class and how they interact in Capitalism and much more. I have co-taught the institute a couple of times as well as conducted several day-long workshops for CPE. Here are a some short pieces I have written for CPE: Do The World's Poor Countries Finance The Rich Ones?- January 2008 Particpatory, Community-Managed Water Systems - September 2006 Privatization of Water - April 2006 Association for India's Development During my stint at Duke University I volunteered for the Association for India's Development, a US-based non-profit that supports grassroots development projects in India and has also increasingly become involved with various people's movements currently active in India (like the Narmada Bachao Andolan, the Bhopal Gas Victims Association etc). Some of my writing from a few years ago when I was still active in AID: Open letter to AID volunteers - May 2003 Globalization and Development - October 2002 Gandhi Beyond the Logo - July 2002
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