Maliha Mohsin

The colonial, capitalist curation of ‘Bangla’ culture

The collective and national memories of the struggle for Bangla is dense in the air, given that February just went by, inviting people to recognise the need to

Bulbbul: Not a revolutionary feminist consciousness

I want to begin by saying that I do not look towards Bollywood for feminist lessons or representations.

A Bangali’s trip to the CHT

When my editor and I thought this idea up, I was half-joking. I don’t really want to tell you how to be a decent Bangali during your Eid

Don't judge a magazine by its size

“You have to know where the term 'magazine' comes from; the magazine of a pistol. When we say 'little magazine', it's a bending of this word. A matter of resistance!”

Chobi Mela X: 2 decades of “persistence”

20 years of anything is a rather big affair. The 10th edition of Chobi Mela has just wrapped up. Here I look to the people who put it together year after year, and the matters that pushed its presence among us through the crevices of this gridlocked city.

Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh

Faiham Ebne Sharif's first solo exhibition, Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh, curated by Amirul Rajiv and Naim Ul Hasan, was held

Landlessness in “Desterrados”: through the outsider's gaze?

When I heard that there was an exhibition on the Bede community at Shilpakola, and that a foreigner had taken the photographs, my curiosity was piqued—I was interested, but also worried.

The impossible hunt for the Top 20!

The hunt for Bangladesh's first GTV Fanta Band is on and with each new episode, we get that much closer to discovering which 5

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