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Matiranga and Bengali racism
Photo: bdnews24.com Have we made the adivasis “disappeared” from our midst? A week after the Matiranga incident there is little stir and no major protests noted. Few writings have appeared to draw...
View ArticleOrigins of the Bengali Calendar
Only a few weeks ago, Bangladesh celebrated Bengali New Year’s day (Bangla Noboborsho) with unprecedented razzmatazz – colourful festoons donned the apartments in high-rise buildings, rickshaws, and...
View ArticleThey have occupied
It is utterly upsetting if not earth-shattering to me that regardless of whether it is popular or high culture, the “unfairer sex” is not celebrated in my country – at all. In the literary front there...
View ArticleLanguage ‘pollution’, court orders and that thing called freedom of expression
Few Op-eds have been as successful as Prof. Manzurul Islam’s recent one in which he said that ‘language pollution’ was as destructive as “river pollution.” The High Court took cognizance of the post...
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