Category Archives: Kalpana Chakma

Kalpana’s Family: Living Under State Surveillance

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by Saydia Gulrukh ‘Do the words of all witnesses count equally?’ asks Kalpana Chakma’s brother Kalicharan Chakma. He brings out his diary as he talks to me and says, ‘I have learned from the tragic mistake that … Continue reading

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Ethnically Singular Nationalist Narratives

`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

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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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