Ghartera Edition 0: Junkyard
“Unlearning is a long process”. It’s doubtful to me that if we were to assemble an ensemble of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors
5y ago
The Life and Times of Liverpool Fans
For a brief moment, in the 50th minute of the Champions League final in Kiev, Liverpool fans across the globe were seized by a sudden and inescapable madness. They had seen their talisman Salah trudge off in tears, breaking a million hearts in the process. They had seen Jürgen Klopp's plans of suffocating this seasoned Madrid side torn to shreds by an infuriating, and yet undeniably excellent, display of cynical
6y ago
Hool Johar: Revisiting the eternal Santhal Revolution
The Santhal Rebellion led to a calculated genocide by the British army who burned down hundreds of villages and killed and raped over 15,000 Santhals to quash their resistance.
7y ago
The last days of an ecology
Gondamara union is not only incredibly disconnected from the rest of Banshkhali upazila and the greater Chittagong area, it isalso one of the most vulnerable places in the country to cyclones and tidal flooding.
7y ago
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.
7y ago
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.
8y ago
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
February 19, 2016
How to Kill a Language
In a couple of days from now, the country will commemorate the day lives were lost in 1952 to preserve the Bengali language and, more
February 12, 2016
In Search of New Shades of the Human Condition
When I first heard of the initial details coming out of the organizing committee of the third edition of Dhaka Art Summit, I felt a little
February 12, 2016
Threading New Paths for South Asian Art
The 3rd edition of the Dhaka Art Summit produced by the Samdani Art Foundation was its most ambitious yet, with the platform evolving
February 5, 2016
The Fourth Estate
The concept of democracy is ever-evolving since the Greco-Roman experiments with the idea of allowing a group of people to decide
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