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NGOs that simply issue appeals to the government to take action on the Rohingya issue are basically superfluous. It does not require an organisation to pass on responsibility to the authorities. One does not need an NGO in order to do something futile. When supposedly “grassroots” organisations claim to be “taking action”, but are in…

For many of us, and I think for most activists, we speak (and thus think) in clichés. Our arguments are inherited and memorized; our discussions follow a script we didn’t write. Public discourse has become an echo chamber, a playback loop, in which people who subscribe to various political doctrines, sets of values, or orthodoxies…