Nora Babalova
Nora Babalova joined SADF as a Program Assistant in October 2016. She holds a Master’s degree in European Studies: Europe-Asia interactions from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, and two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Indology with a specialisation in modern Indian languages (Bengali and Hindi) and one in Liberal Arts from the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Her research field focuses on EU-India strategic partnership and water management in South Asia. In May 2018, Nora presented a paper on the politics of water management in the Brahmaputra basin at the 12th Congress of the Regional Science Association International, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa, India.
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Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh (Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf on Substack)
Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh
Can universities sustain democracy when disagreement becomes dangerous?
In “Truncation of Academic Freedom in Today’s Bangladesh”, Dr. Siegfried O. Wolf argues that the post-2024 political transition has failed to secure independent campus governance. He describes forced resignations, political labelling and competing student organisations asserting...
Did Rabindranath Tagore Oppose the Establishment of Dhaka University? – C282
Separating Historical Evidence from Political Myth
ABSTRACT
Did Rabindranath Tagore oppose the establishment of the University of Dhaka? This article examines a persistent allegation that the Bengali poet resisted the proposed university and even presided over a protest meeting in Kolkata in March 1912. Reviewing the institutional history of Dhaka...
FREE SHAHRIAR KABIR An Open Letter
An Open Letter in Defense of Historical Memory, Freedom of Expression, and Shahriar Kabir
Issued jointly by Genocide Watch (United States), Chair of the Alliance Against Genocide, together with Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (Canada), European Bangladesh Forum (UK and EU), International Crimes Strategy Forum (United Kingdom), South Asian...