Ethno-demographic, administrative and economic factors have pushed US governments to adopt unconventional detention and deportation policies. But the value of these policies is questioned on practical as well as philosophical grounds he United States is a land of immigrants. And yet there has been strong resistance to immigrants, especially of low
There have been evermore increasing
There have been evermore increasing demands by the Bangladeshi government to extradite Hasina, who having fled the country has been in refuge in India, becoming another point of confrontation. While Chinese involvement with the Chittagong port has already been a source of discomfort to India, threating maritime security in the Bay of Bengal. The ri
secular construct of the Bengali
The Awami League (AL), led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had secured Bangladesh’s independence in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: which was fought against the in the post-partition Panjabi-Pathaan hegemony over the Pakistani government and the military, political exclusion of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and an imposition of Urdu as the nationa
The definition of heterarchy
The definition of heterarchy varies only slightly depending on the scientific discipline and application. For mathematician and computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter,1 it is a system in which there is no “highest level.” For sociologist David Stark,2 it’s “an emergent organizational form with distinctive network properties… and multiple o
half completed before I became
He wrote in a later publication: “My observations were more than half completed before I became aware that the surprising phenomenon of the spontaneous revolutions of the stems and tendrils of climbing plants had been long ago observed.” Darwin was no ordinary naturalist. He saw that, though circumnutation was not a new observation, scientists