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Politics is the price of rice…

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed Bhat dey haramjada (Give rice, you bastard) — screamed the graffiti on a wall. It had stunned pedestrians in Dhaka. This was 1974. In early March, six months before the famine had reached its peak, … Continue reading

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