Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar, writer and broadcaster, describes himself as a ‘critical polymath’. He is the author of over 40 books, including the highly acclaimed ‘Desperately Seeking Paradise’. He is Visiting Professor, School of Arts, the City University, London and editor of ‘Futures’, the monthly journal of planning, policy and futures studies.
Articles by Ziauddin Sardar
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Politics
More Hackney than Bollywood
- 30 July 2001
The race issue - The British want ethnic minorities to be romantic, exotic, and above all non-Muslim. It's just another way of saying that we don't belong here, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
A dying body attracts vultures
- 04 June 2001
Ziauddin Sardar in riot-torn Oldham finds no scent of curry, no sound of Bollywood, no evidence of electioneering: "an Asian area quite unlike any I have ever seen"
Politics
Among Asians, bakshish is just another word
- 26 March 2001
We call them bribes, but Indians may regard them just as a way of cementing social relations
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Trapped in the human zoo
- 19 March 2001
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Celebrity is now the world's main currency, the key to success for good causes as well as for film studios. Ziauddin Sardarargues that the price is too high
Fat chance
- 26 February 2001
Science - Fat is not a disease, so don't try to cure it, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
Brotherhood of man and roundworm
- 19 February 2001
The left can celebrate the latest news on genes, but not too much
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - A nation that believes it speaks for the world
- 22 January 2001
The US Presidency - What lies behind American arrogance? An ideology that proclaims the country's innocence, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
Thank you for the genes we eat
- 15 January 2001
The biotechnology industry boasts GM foods will be the salvation of humanity. Ziauddin Sardar went to their US laboratories and put their claims to the test
Politics
So close and yet so despised
- 11 December 2000
It took Unesco to recognise the contribution a town in Gwent made to history. Ziauddin Sardar on how the Welsh were the first victims of English racism
