April 28, 2017
Ahmed Sofa In Posterity - Muslim Anxiety In A 'Muslim World'
We begin at a time after the battle of Karbala, where the traitor Simar is carrying Hazrat Hossain's disembodied head to Damascus in the hopes of getting a sizeable bounty.
June 10, 2016
Addressing the land question
Bangladesh is home to a diverse group of religions and ethnicities, many of whom have culturally different ties to nature and land, and yet the rampant dispossessing of the poor from their lands is changing the realities of all these communities.
April 1, 2016
Of Rape and Selective Outrage
‘It could've been my sister, it could've been my mother, it could've been me'. Every time the media reports on a story of a woman's rape,
March 25, 2016
Jaago Bangladeshi Jaago
45 years ago, at the beginning of the month of March, Yahya Khan announced on televisions and radios that the General Assembly of Pakistan was to be postponed 'until a later date'.
March 18, 2016
What Happens to Invisible Bodies?
The streets of Dhaka, and really, the entire country, exist in a kind of violence-ignorance dichotomy. We are ready at a moment's notice, it seems, to engage in any kind of mass public beating, regardless of what the victim's sins may have been. At the same time,
March 18, 2016
Violence, Shaming and the Bangali Psyche
It has been estimated that almost 3 crore people in this country use the social media site Facebook. In a country where starvation, landlessness and extreme poverty are still very, very prevalent, the use of technology, especially smart phones with internet, has
March 18, 2016
For Land, For Identity
Just past the bridge that connected the Tea Estate to Chunarughat Upazila, however, you could hear loud voices
March 11, 2016
Those We Have Collectively Failed Hiramoni Shaotal
On the 2nd of March, Bangladesh beat Pakistan in the semi-finals of the recently concluded Asia Cup. It prompted an outpouring of
February 26, 2016
Should the World #FeelTheBern?
The results from the Nevada caucus are in and it is now turning out to be a historic race for the Presidential nominee for both the
February 21, 2016
The economics of learning a new language
When we look back at the previous century, we do so today with the wisdom that is only ever afforded to hindsight. But even through