Subscribe to ShahidulNews Earlier this month as we drove along the 6th of October Bridge in Cairo, my friend Gamal reminded me that below the surface the cauldron was boiling. That things could flare any minute. That he was certain, … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Posted by Radical Notes December 31, 2010 at 8:44 am in India Sanhati We are deeply anguished by the convictions and sentences of Dr. Binayak Sen, Piyush Guha, and Narayan Sanyal by the additional district and sessions … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Arundhati Roy Monday, November 01, 2010 (Courtesy: Znet) New Delhi, October 31: A mob of about a hundred people arrived at my house at 11 this morning (Sunday October 31st 2010.) They broke through the gate … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews Daily Mirror THURSDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2010 00:00 The 4th article of the Dasa Raja Dharma, Lord Buddha’s incomparable treatise on good governance is about Ajjava, i.e. honesty and integrity. The ruler, the Buddha said must be absolutely … Continue reading
‘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
“You speak good Chinese”, said Qian Kaifu, Cultural Councellor of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Bangladesh. A soft-spoken elderly gentleman. Standing beside him was a quiet, smartly dressed woman, Cao Yanhua the Cultural Attache, who passed … Continue reading
“Come out we won’t shoot”, they had yelled out over the megaphone. Not the most alluring of invitations, particularly when it is from a police van surrounding your flat at midnight. They had thought we were hiding someone and after … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews ON-LINE LIFELINE Feminist writer Taslima Nasreen in hiding after receiving a death threat from Islamic fundamentalists Third World activists are using global connections to pressure the powers-that-be and even save lives. Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam has little … Continue reading
