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Category Archives: Humour
Sense of humour failure
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Censorship in Pakistan Economist Nov 25th 2011, 13:04 by L.M. AN OFTEN overlooked perk of being a country with a large population and relatively low wages is the capacity to employ people to carry out silly … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Corruption, culture, Elections, Governance, Humour, Media issues, politics
Tagged censorship, citizen media, corruption, economist, mobile phone, Pakistan, politicians, sms, Zardari
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The foibles of the world
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Martin Parr reveals the secret of taking photographs that tell the unvarnished truth By Benjamin Secher 27 Aug 2011 Girls at the Badminton horse trials in 1988 A game of bowls in Bristol in 2000 Couple outside … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Humour, Photography, Photojournalism, Photojournalism issues
Tagged culture, drik gallery, Martin Parr, Photography, visual art
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Journo Jaunts
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Pedro Naik Ye olde paper is really losing its marbles. How else to explain the call I received from the editor? “Pedro,” he barked, nearly blowing my head off as I put the receiver to my … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Humour, media, Media issues
Tagged editor, Journalism. print, media, newspaper, Pedro Naik
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The Great Imitator
Subscribe to ShahidulNews A fllm by Atul Loke, the talented photojournalist from India. By the mid 1960s, Charlie Chaplin – the man George Bernard Shaw called ‘the only genius to come out of the movie industry’ – was well into the twilight … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Humour, South Asia
Tagged Atul Loke, Charlie Chaplin, Comedy, Drama, Film, humour, India, Photography
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Dhaka Traffic Blues
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Well, the long holidays are over, and the streets of Dhaka are slowly getting back to their normal frenzy. The horns, the put-put of the baby taxis, the bewildered stare of the taxi driver as he tries … Continue reading
Posted in Bangladesh, culture, Humour, Photography, Shahidul Alam, South Asia
Tagged Art, city, Festival, infrastructure, Photography, traffic, transport, urban life, visual art
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