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
February 1, 2016
Foreign investments under a heterodox microscope
Economics is not a science. As much as those of us studying and practicing the discipline would like to place it in the same category as the hard, positivist sciences, the fact of the matter is that it simply isn't. Unlike the hard sciences, we cannot embark upon environmentally controlled experiments using humans as lab rats to find out the truth of a particular economic theory.
February 1, 2016
Facebook and the myth of free internet
Almost a year ago, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose made the comment that
January 29, 2016
Cha-erDokaan, On the Other Side of the World
It had been almost a year and a half since I had been home. Home, noun- the place where one lives permanently, especially as a
January 22, 2016
A Revolution Hundred Years in The Making
There is a movement rising at the periphery of the country, where tea workers are finally taking to the street in a coordinated move against the century-long oppression they've been facing.
January 22, 2016
A Fight for Land and Livelihood
Mondagini Bakti stands in front of me with her left hand on her hip and her right hand outstretched towards the light, her palm stained with the yellow of ground turmeric.
January 22, 2016
The Bangladesh We Speak of, 45 Years on
Picture a scenario where Mustafizur Rahman, the mercurial new addition to the Bangladeshi cricket team, claims a hattrick in the penultimate over of a game...
January 15, 2016
The Birth of a Panopticon State
When the Awami League came to power in 2008, it was amidst the backdrop of a real possibility of military rule entrenching once ...
July 8, 2015
A Failure of the Eurozone
As with any case of austerity politics, the biggest losers were the working class, as conditions of free market investment benefitted the capital-owning class. These harsh measures eventually led to mass unemployment and underconsumption and as a result the economy suffered even more, worsening Greece's plight.
June 27, 2015
An unconventional perspective
In any case, the lowering of corporate tax is bad for the economy holistically as it will serve to widen inequality between the super-rich and the waged worker.
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