Watch Prime Minister Tobgay’s talk: View our Guest Speaker Spotlight featuring Prime Minister Tobgay Tshering Tobgay was born in Bhutan on September 19th, 1965. He is the oldest of six siblings and the current Prime Minister of Bhutan. Tshering attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. This was followed by the completion of his Masters of Public Administration at Harvard University. After...
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Watch Urbi's talk on transgenerational prostitution: Read our guest speaker spotlight on Urmi Basu Urmi Basu is the founder of New Light: a non-profit community development project and charitable trust based in Kalighat, Kolkata — one of the oldest red-light districts of the city. Since 2000, New Light has provided shelter, educational opportunities, recreational facilities, healthcare, and legal aid for the children, girls and women in the Kalighat community. There...
Read MoreListen to the talk: Dilip Simeon is a well-known labour historian and public intellectual in India. He is chairperson of the Aman Trust. He was senior research fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library between 2005 and 2008. A wide range of commentary and writing by Dilip Simeon has been distributed on the South Asia Citizens Wire. Among his earlier articles on sacw.net are: The Politics of the Labour Movement:...
Read MoreWatch the talk: José Antonio Cao was born in Cuba in 1979 and began a self-taught yoga practice at the early age of fourteen. His strong commitment to the discipline lead him to contact his first yoga teacher, who inspired his practice until he finally decides to leave his home country and travel to Spain. Here he began a career as a yoga teacher, specializing in the Iyengar style. Twelve...
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