`Owning’ the weather? PART VIII By Rahnuma Ahmed Ten years from now, no, five years from now, you’ll feel ashamed for having written this. Definitely. He hung up. This was last Monday, the day `Global Warming, Or The Greatest Scientific … Continue reading
By Satish Sharma The shutting-down of two photographic exhibitions in Dhaka’s Drik Gallery in just the last few months proves that Bangladesh’s censors, unlike lightning, can strike at the same place more than once – especially where Drik’s photographic practices … Continue reading
By Saydia Gulrukh Sodork or Totteleng As our bus entered Khagrachari Sadar, the graffiti on the wall caught my eye. I don’t remember exactly the name of the school. It was a government high school. The main gate almost broken, … Continue reading
By Rahnuma Ahmed I see no reason not to be worried. For we have, over the years, begun mimicking our erstwhile Pakistani rulers when it comes to explaining what went wrong in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The `tribals’ want to … Continue reading
New Age Editorial THE siege, so to speak, of the Drik Gallery by the police on Monday, to force cancellation of a photo exhibition on extrajudicial killings by acclaimed photographer and Drik managing director Shahidul Alam, not only undermined the … Continue reading
An exhibition of photographs by Shahidul Alam There is a wall running along a street. The writing on it is fragmented and cannot quite be made sense of. The image was taken in the middle of the night and a … Continue reading
`Owning’ the weather? PART VII By Rahnuma Ahmed The theory of global warming, a `theory’ which we know to be `real,’ according to which the temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and that of its oceans has been rising since … Continue reading
From Groundviews By Gypsy Bohemia A solitary lamp perched on a desk top lights a room. A man scribbles feverishly on paper, hunched over the light as if he’s jealously guarding what little he has. His desk is cluttered with … Continue reading
`Warring factions’ in the CHT By Rahnuma Ahmed In homage to Kalpana Chakma, who is marginal to the Bengali-dominated women’s movement in Bangladesh, which, regardless of its internal differences, is seamlessly united in its collective refusal to critically engage with … Continue reading
`Owning’ the weather? PART VI By Rahnuma Ahmed “Our goals are not to gain political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in … Continue reading
