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New humility for the hegemon

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 2, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews India and its near-abroad Too slowly, India is realising that poor relations with its South Asian neighbours hold back its global ambitions Jul 30th 2011 | from the print edition of the Economist NO ONE loves a … Continue reading →

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An Assassination’s Long Shadow

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 17, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Adam Hochschild Published: January 16, 2011 in the New York Times TODAY, millions of people on another continent are observing the 50th anniversary of an event few Americans remember, the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. A slight, … Continue reading →

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Blasting war, hoping for peace

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 31, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews An inspiring soliloquy by Chris Hedges to those preparing for arrest in front of the White House protesting the continuous wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, intercut with interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and returning war veterans

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Anti-semitism, and the 9/11, Israel-Mossad Connection Part II

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 17, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality,” an unnamed Bush official told reporter Ron Suskind, quoted by Eric Alterman, Bush’s War on the Press, The Nation (2005) Even when the US … Continue reading →

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Land and people. De-colonising the national imagination

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 27, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed I see no reason not to be worried. For we have, over the years, begun mimicking our erstwhile Pakistani rulers when it comes to explaining what went wrong in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The `tribals’ want to … Continue reading →

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Home and the architecture of occupation

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 29, 2008

Rahnuma Ahmed Homes, sweet homes WHAT does home mean for Palestinians driven away from their land in recurring waves of Israeli onslaught — 1948, 1949 to 1956, and again in 1967, due to the six-day war? What does home mean … Continue reading →

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Paradise Found

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 11, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews It had been a hectic month. An assignment in Sri Lanka, followed by the World Press Photo award ceremony in Amsterdam and Martin Parr’s Sam Presser lecture. It had been many years since Martin had slept in … Continue reading →

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Flowers on a Grave

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 11, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews He had been quietly playing by himself as his grandmother talked to the strangers. But we had made eye contact. He wanted to make friends, and a smile spread over his face as I approached. Suddenly he … Continue reading →

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I hear the screams

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 11, 2006

Even after years of playing Pied Piper with a camera, I am still taken aback by children insisting on being photographed. It was September 1988, and we had had the worst floods in a century. These people at Gaforgaon hadn’t … Continue reading →

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