Op-Ed on Ekantipur: Costs of Leaving Home
costs of leaving home
What befalls the silent victims of semi- and unskilled migrant workers who die in foreign soil--their children and young siblings--is the death of their dreams!
An Interview: COMMITTED…to Keeping Dreams Alive
As a guest in a live FM Radio Program, I discuss the reasons behind the "We're COMMITTED" campaign to raise awareness about the plight of the children and younger siblings of dead migrants.
An Interview: Out of the circle
An interview where I discuss why COMMITTED is running the "We're COMMITTED" campaign to raise awareness about the plight, and fundraising to help, the children and younger siblings of dead migrants.
Qatar…From Afar: In Qatar, jailed Asian expat’s guilty until proven innocent
In Qatar, Asian workers, deemed to have run afoul of the law for whatever reason, are treated as guilty until proven innocent...by their own selves with hardly any support from the legal system.
Qatar…From Afar: Irony of Ironies
What I thought of, and expected from, Muslims and Arabs in general before I arrived in Qatar, and what I actually discovered about who, what and how they are as a people, based on how they treated me (and other Asians).
Qatar…From Afar: Riyality Check
The plight of Nepalese unskilled workers who go to Qatar to make just some money so their families back home can have just a slightly better life but end up ensnared in the country's Kafkaesque legal system.