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American Activists and the Birth of Bangladesh

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 2, 2012

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Podcast Play in New Window | Download Forty years ago this month, the country of Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan. Then-President Richard Nixon supported Pakistan during the war because he wanted to prove the US would stand … Continue reading →

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India’s secret war in Bangladesh

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 29, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Praveen Swami The Hindu As a grand finale to the victorious role played in the liberation of Bangladesh and to make their final withdrawal, the Indian Army held a farewell parade at the Dacca Stadium on … Continue reading →

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Bangladesh war: The article that changed history

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2011

By Mark Dummett BBC News On 13 June 1971, an article in the UK’s Sunday Times exposed the brutality of Pakistan’s suppression of the Bangladeshi uprising. It forced the reporter’s family into hiding and changed history. Abdul Bari had run … Continue reading →

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Bangladesh, 40 years later

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 15, 2011

Date: 16 December 2011 Time: 11 am (BD time, GMT + 6:00) Venue: Drik, House 58, Road 15 A Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1209 Live Streaming: http://www.drik.tv Drik and Photographers for Hope cordially invite you to a media briefing and the launch of the … Continue reading →

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Shock & Awe Talk

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 29, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews A politically incorrect letter to Tareque Masud by Mac Haque “I’ve overcome the blow, I’ve learned to take it well, I only wish my words could just convince myself,that it just wasn’t real. But that’s not the … Continue reading →

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Subcontinental drift

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 10, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Salil Tripathi Does the controversial book about Bangladesh’s war of liberation uncover new truths, or simply reverse old biases? It is an article of faith in Bangladesh that three million people died in its war of … Continue reading →

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But what about US war crimes, Mr Ambassador-at-large?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 31, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed Because of its power and global interests U.S. leaders have committed crimes as a matter of course and structural necessity. A strict application of international law would … have given every U.S. president of … Continue reading →

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Is your liberation, also mine?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2008

Rahnuma Ahmed “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together” – Lisa Watson, aboriginal activist 1971 ‘No, I … Continue reading →

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Jamaat’s farce unravels

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 21, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed A national convention of freedom fighters organised by supporters and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. An outright appropriation. The only problem is, Mohammad Ali saw through it. A single … Continue reading →

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Family secrets, state secrets

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 27, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed History is never more compelling than when it gives us insights into oneself and the ways in which one’s own experience is constituted. Amitav Ghosh, in a letter to Dipesh Chakrabarty I do not see … Continue reading →

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