Tag: Siddharth Kara

December 20, 2012

Siddharth Kara Interviewed in The Economist

The Economist blog Feast and Famine: Demography and Development recently interviewed Siddharth Kara about his new book Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia . In the interview Kara explains how people become trapped and exploited in...

October 17, 2012

VIDEO: Siddharth Kara on Bonded Labor

This week CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery has been featuring posts and videos by Siddharth Kara, author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia. On Monday, he looked at bonded labor in Nepal and the...

October 12, 2012

Siddharth Kara on How to End Bonded Labor

In addition to exploring the system of bonded labor and the lives of those who suffer under it, Siddharth Kara offers ways in which it can be ended. (For a description of the system of bonded, read an excerpt from...

October 11, 2012

Siddharth Kara on the Facts Behind Bonded Labor in South Asia

Critics have praised Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, for his integration of investigative narrative journalism and clear-sighted economic analysis. In this post,...

October 10, 2012

Siddharth Kara on the Sex Trade in Nepal

For his most recent book, Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara is based on his extensive travels to the region. In a running series on CNN’s Freedom Project: Ending Modern-Day Slavery, Kara discussed what...

October 9, 2012

Book Giveaway: "Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia," by Siddharth Kara

“Siddharth Kara’s exploration of bonded labor in South Asia is perhaps the most ambitious and reasoned treatment of this form of slavery in the modern era…. This is a must read for all that want to better understand the trajectory...

September 11, 2012

New Book Tuesday: A New Book by Siddharth Kara and More

Our weekly listing of new titles now available: Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia Siddharth Kara Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, and Subjectivity Gabriele Schwab The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam A. Azfar Moin...

January 18, 2012

Siddharth Kara on How to End Sex Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Last week Siddharth Kara, author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery, was interviewed by Rahim Kanani on forbes.com. Kara who advises the U.N., the U.S. government , and other governments on anti-slavery research and policy, describes how...