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BBC Bangla anniversary debate

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews BBC Bangla anniversary debate on Channel i focuses on freedom of information Date: 21.12.2011Last updated: 21.12.2011 at 15.01Category: World Service Bangladesh’s rapidly changing media scene will be in the focus of the special BBC Bangla programme to be broadcast … Continue reading →

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Sense of humour failure

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 27, 2011

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 →

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The Great Hiroshima Cover-up

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 7, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Greg Mitchell The Nation In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan sixty-six years ago this week, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and … Continue reading →

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Arrest warrants against top TIB executives

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 26, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews bdnews24.com Sun, Dec 26th, 2010 1:43 pm BdST Comilla, Dec 26 (bdnews24.com) — A Comilla court has issued arrest warrants against the TIB chairman, director and a fellow for ‘maligning’ the judiciary in its household survey report. … Continue reading →

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Representing ‘Crossfire’: politics, art and photography

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 8, 2010

Shahidul Alam in an interview with New Age by Rahnuma Ahmed Media reports on “Crossfire” exhibition Latest report in Indepndent Shahidul Alam’s exhibition, ‘Crossfire’ (a euphemism for extrajudicial killings by the Rapid Action Battalion), was scheduled to open on March … Continue reading →

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Siege of Drik Gallery

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 25, 2010

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 →

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In response to `Smoking gun abused for smokescreen’

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 22, 2009

By Rahnuma Ahmed As a New Age columnist, I was thinking of writing about the controversy surrounding the Tibet exhibition (Into Exile. Tibet 1949 – 2009, November 1-7) for my next column. My dear Maobadi friend, Tarek Chowdhury’s piece, which … Continue reading →

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We Protest

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 2, 2009

‘Into Exile – Tibet 1949 – 2009,′ an exhibition organised by the Bangladeshi chapter of Students for a Free Tibet, in partnership with Drik, was symbolically opened by Professor Muzaffer Ahmed, former chairman of Transparency International Bangladesh, on 1 November 2009. … Continue reading →

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`Still pictures are not still…’ Fore-seeing the effect of visual images

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 15, 2009

by Rahnuma Ahmed `Still pictures are not still…’ said Mahasweta Devi. She was in Dhaka to inaugurate Chobi Mela V, and, fortunately for us, had expressed her wish to put up with Shahidul Alam, the director of Chobi Mela. Having … Continue reading →

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Un-intelligent manoeuvres: tales of censorship

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 21, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed Calling for an end to the emergency rules, editors and senior journalists of the print and electronic media yesterday protested against the interference of government and military agencies in the everyday task of the media. … Continue reading →

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