Mapping female emancipation autonomous womanhood vs. dasi By rahnuma ahmed His comments made me stop in my tracks, I began re-thinking why I had proceeded as I had. I’d suffered nagging doubts about Part II after it had been published. … Continue reading
Mapping female emancipation autonomous womanhood vs. dasi By rahnuma ahmed In yesterday’s column, I had written that Bangladeshi scholars, researchers and intellectuals who have sought to understand and appreciate Begum Rokeya (1880-1932) have ignored issues of class and gender. Gender, … Continue reading
Mapping female emancipation autonomous womanhood vs. dasi By rahnuma ahmed ‘Streejatir Obonoti’ (The downfall of the women-class), Begum Rokeya’s (1880-1932) seminal essay on the condition of women in colonial Bengal was published in the Bangla year 1311, i.e., in the … Continue reading
By rahnuma ahmed The accused — former President of the United States George W. Bush and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair — were tried in absentia at the tribunal’s hearings. Their absence, presumably, was not due to lack … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Conspiracy theory, or global power structure? By rahnuma ahmed Speculation about the Bilderberg Group runs rife at both ends of the political spectrum – ‘Bilderberg meetings are a corporate-globalist scheme planning to move the planet toward an … Continue reading
By, rahnuma ahmed Introducing the Bilderberg Club Last year, when I’d asked Nurul Kabir if he knew that America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, was privately-owned (New Age, November 14, 2011), I’d slipped in a mention of the Bilderberg Club … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed It is not only the American corporate media which keeps the lid on the Federal Reserve System — since, contrary to what most Americans believe, it is `not federal’, has `no reserve’, is `not … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Dr. Ben Shalom Bernanke is the current chairman of the Federal Reserve, the `central’ bank of the United States of America. “I know you are very busy, but you must make time. I have … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed On hearing news of the Libyan leader colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gleefully proclaimed — while paraphrasing the words of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, Vini, vidi, vici, `I … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Ma, my soul feels parched. It quivers like a kite. (`ma, amar attay pani nai, atta ghuddir moto khali orey’) — Masud Hossain of Purbashinda village, Tangail, one among eight be-headed in Saudia Arabia … Continue reading
