When people say that Fox News sometimes operates on an alternative planet, they are not kidding. Although debating famed Fox News Host, Tucker Carlson on climate change felt like a surreal joke, I persevered. Watch below!
*On The Daily Ittefaq Here.* One of my earliest memories of the highly toxic and dangerous metal, mercury, was with my older sister when we were kids in Bangladesh. We would break glass thermometers and play with the liquid mercury, fascinated by how it moved over our the tiny hands of a child. Our little minds …
There are no words to describe the devastation that the nation of Nepal has been struck by. Seems as though the very forces that gave this country its beautiful rugged natural beauty is set out to destroy it. I traveled to Nepal when I was in middle school as part of a class trip through …
Anushay’s Point got the amazing opportunity to go live on Al-Jazeera’s The Stream, the network’s social media driven show. You may have caught me on air over the past month, talking about everything from e-Patriarchy to Islamaphobia to Canadian mining companies in Latin America to India’s caste-system. I’m trying to do a good job of …
Anchorwoman at Al-Jazeera: Anushay’s Point Goes Live Read More »
At the end of October, the UN has projected that the world’s population will reach 7 billion, a scary milestone amidst increasing global political and economic instability. More people will only place increased pressure on our environment, on the world’s habitats, forests, and resources such as water. But how does investing in women’s rights tie …
Seven Billion People & Women’s Rights: What is the Connection? Read More »
A few weeks ago, as oil kept gushing from the Gulf Coast waters, Obama let us know that he talks to the experts so he “knows whose ass to kick” for the disaster that is the BP oil spill. The media in the US and cable news talking heads mouthed off not on the gazillion …
I grew up knowing my country was drowning. My childhood memories are full of flashing images of annual monsoon rains making rivers out of our roads, lakes out of our rice paddy fields, washing away farmers’ harvests, pushing the rural population into our already overpopulated capital city. Of course the yearly floods alternated with even …
Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices? Read More »