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
By Rahnuma Ahmed We Jews should never, ever become like our tormentors — not even to save our lives. Even at Auschwitz, I sensed that such a moral downfall would render my survival meaningless. – Hajo Meyer, An Ethical Tradition … Continue reading
`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
His eyes flitted forward and back, and having surveyed the scene for possible danger, it stopped. The head stooped, and that was how he stayed. Crouched on the floor of a bus full of Bangalis, the Pahari (hill person) amongst … Continue reading
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
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
Subscribe to ShahidulNews rahnuma ahmed Some external terrorists from outside Sajek have set these fires. There is no conflict between Bengalis and Paharis in this area. Those who set the fire don’t want the current communal harmony between Bengalis and … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Over the years, February has become our month of resistance. This is the window that successive repressive governments have allowed us, to vent our steam. The open air plays in Shahid Minar, the book fare in Bangla … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of press photographs could successfully counter that sort … Continue reading
