Good morning ducks!  Here’s your update from District 12…

• Kalpona Aktar just wants you to know who is making your clothes.
• Myra MacDonald argues that the TTP has a plan to influence the elections and the people do not.  The “bewildering bloodbath” will go on and the only way to keep track is to count the dead children.
• These photos make the exercise of biopower seem so clean and clinical.
• Jean Valjean is living below the poverty line again … for a week.
• Is this classified as democracy promotion in the budget?
• Niraja Jayal unpacks concepts of citizenship.
• A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay’s Namuna.

Photo: UNICEF UK