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8 Dec

… is the title of a new book by Lucy Norris of the Department of Anthropology, University College, London.

The blurb:

In today’s globally connected marketplace, a Buy Alprazolam Mastercard wedding sari in rural north India may become a woman’s blouse or cushion cover in a Western boutique. Lucy Norris’s anthropological study of the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard recycling of clothes in Delhi follows garments as they are Buy Alprazolam Mastercard gifted, worn, handed on, discarded, recycled, and sold once more. Gifts of clothing are Buy Alprazolam Mastercard used to make and break relationships within middle-class households, but a Buy Alprazolam Mastercard growing surplus of unwanted clothing now contributes to a global glut of textile waste. When old clothing is, for Buy Alprazolam Mastercard instance, bartered for new kitchen utensils, it enters a vast waste commodity system in which it Buy Alprazolam Mastercard may be resold to the poor or remade into new textiles and Buy Alprazolam Mastercard exported. Norris traces these local and transnational flows through homes and Buy Alprazolam Mastercard markets as she tells the stories of the people who Buy Alprazolam Mastercard work in the largely hidden world of fabric recycling.

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The country realises that it is now a migration destination.

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27 Jan

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In India, petty corruption is pervasive – people often face situations where Buy Alprazolam Mastercard they are asked to pay bribes for public services that should be Buy Alprazolam Mastercard provided free. 5th Pillar distributes zero rupee notes in the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard hopes that ordinary Indians can use these notes as a means to Buy Alprazolam Mastercard protest demands for bribes by public officials.

It works this Buy Alprazolam Mastercard way: whenever some public servant demands a bribe before rendering service, they are Buy Alprazolam Mastercard given one of those notes as a form of protest. The origin of the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard idea?

According to Anand [president of 5th Pillar], the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard idea was first conceived by an Indian physics professor at the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard University of Maryland, who, in his travels around India, realized how widespread bribery was and Buy Alprazolam Mastercard wanted to do something about it. He came up with the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard idea of printing zero-denomination notes and handing them out to officials whenever he was asked for Buy Alprazolam Mastercard kickbacks as a way to show his resistance. Anand took this Buy Alprazolam Mastercard idea further: to print them en masse, widely publicize them, and Buy Alprazolam Mastercard give them out to the Indian people. He thought these notes would be Buy Alprazolam Mastercard a way to get people to show their disapproval of public service delivery dependent on bribes. The notes did just that. The first batch of 25,000 notes were met with such demand that Buy Alprazolam Mastercard 5th Pillar has ended up distributing one million zero-rupee notes to Buy Alprazolam Mastercard date since it began this initiative. Along the way, the organization has Buy Alprazolam Mastercard collected many stories from people using them to successfully resist engaging in bribery.

As a Buy Alprazolam Mastercard loud form of protest, it has apparently worked. But as soon as the Buy Alprazolam Mastercard novelty of the idea wears off, and the shock of being presented with such a Buy Alprazolam Mastercard note is, well, no longer a shock, I suppose things will return to Buy Alprazolam Mastercard business as usual.

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