The flower sellers and the popcorn venders were having a field day. The streets were jammed with traffic diverted from the University. Sales would be good. A range of different modes of transport plying Dhaka streets, makes the city roads … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Experts determine our lives. They decide what we should wear, who we should have as partners, how many children we should have, who we should take loans from. They determine the very characteristics of a ‘civilised society’. … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews www.migrantsoul.org Who am I? Where do I belong? Who determines my future? Society has no answer to these restless questions. Our sense of identity, kinship and community, are at worst shattered by the experience of migration and … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews When US Senator Tom Harkin proposed a boycott of the products of child labour, Western campaigners applauded. But there were unforeseen consequences for the children of Bangladesh, as Shahidul Alam reports. No. No photographs. Saleha is scared. … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews www.newint.org/issue287/contents.html Letter from Bangladesh Changing their destiny Shahidul Alam travels with the poor who chase a dream to distant lands. They all have numbers. Jeans tucked into their high-ankled sneakers. They strut through the airport lounge, moving … Continue reading
