Are you passionate about exploring the critical study of genocide, its causes, and its impacts on society? Sowaka Harshita Foundation presents "A Course on Genocide," a transformative program designed to…
This is my first blog in a series of blogs where I will start to talk about intergenerational trauma via historical loss that many communities face and apply it to…
In my last blog I talked about PTSD (Post traumatic Stress Syndrome), its causes and some of the symptoms. Together with it I also talked about intergenerational trauma. In this…
In my last blog I spoke of Narrative therapy for historical trauma. I will take a specific case, the case of Noakhali Hindu genocide that is slowly coming out. Here…
In Freud the center of all identities is gender identity and gender differentiation. For Freud all gender identities happen along what he terms as “castration complex”, which he later termed…
“One Tailor (Hindu) and his wife were brought from Baghmari. There were deep wound marks on the body of the man. He and his wife came in half dead. Two…
No amount of token representation or rallies will change anything, unless people's consciousness changes. Are we asking the following questions? 1. Why is there so much violence against women when…
According to Polish Jewish author, Raphael Lemkin genocide is, “… the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group… generally speaking genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of…
The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compacts are too terrible to utter aloud; this is the meaning of the word…
“The misrepresentation of genocide victims through symbolization can have profound implications for intergenerational trauma and collective memory. When victims are reduced to simplified symbols or narratives, the legacies of trauma…
According to Polish Jewish author, Raphael Lemkin genocide is, “… the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group… generally speaking genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of…
The following is a testimony of Ms. Barmala Wife of Late Monohoan Roy. The Excerpt is from "Noakhali" Sandip Mukherjee, translated by Rinita Mazumdar: Testimony of Mrs. Barmala Roy…