Monthly Archives: June 2008

A tortured image

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed I AM against torture. Nothing justifies torture. This is a principled stand, there are no ifs and buts. But why is it that when I see a recent picture of Tarique Rahman, son of … Continue reading

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Being a mother

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed ‘One thing led to another. It was not planned, nothing of that sort. It’s a long story, but first let me tell you what I think about motherhood.’ We were chatting, Mohua Mohammod (pseudonym) and … Continue reading

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Dancing amidst the Baobabs

Subscribe to ShahidulNews They called her Yatounde, the one who returned. Like her priestess grandmother Aloopho, who knew the secrets of the dance, Yatounde had dance in her blood. Her father had disobeyed his mother the priestess, by withholding the … Continue reading

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Ghosts

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Ian Buruma Volume 55, Number 11 · June 26, 2008 The New York Review of Books Two photographs, taken by digital camera at Abu Ghraib prison, on the night of November 5, 2003. The first picture … Continue reading

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‘We want to know’

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Kalpana Chakma’s unresolved abduction 20 years on… Photographs and interviews by Saydia Gulrukh Kalindikumar Chakma (Kalicharan) Kalpana’s eldest brother ‘The hill people do not get justice, look at Yasmin, some justice was done, but people of the … Continue reading

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‘The best years of my life’. Or, remittances earned

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed Amar jiboner sreshtho shomoita dilam. Amar joubon amake ke phirie debe? (I gave the best years of my life. Who will give me back my youth?) A Bangladeshi migrant. Paris, 2002. Bangladeshi workers resting in … Continue reading

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