Tag Archives: history

The Mexican suitcase

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 15, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Trisha Ziff is a curator of photography and documentary film maker whose films, focus on the photographic image. A Guggenheim scholar, her exhibitions have been seen at major international museums including: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; California … Continue reading →

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Subcontinental drift

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 10, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Salil Tripathi Does the controversial book about Bangladesh’s war of liberation uncover new truths, or simply reverse old biases? It is an article of faith in Bangladesh that three million people died in its war of … Continue reading →

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Where Three Dreams Cross

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 2, 2010

By Rosa Maria Falvo Spanning 150 years of photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, this ambitious survey of historic and contemporary works includes over 400 images by 82 artists. Using ‘shared culture’ as a parameter, it is the first comprehensive … Continue reading →

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Emerging from the Shadows

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 21, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews The first Friday of every month, we would clear out the furniture of Bijon Da’s “Boithok Khana” (drawing room), move some of the chairs out to the verandah, and set up a table for the speakers. People … Continue reading →

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Where Three Dreams Cross

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 11, 2010

(Left to right: Abir Abdullah/Drik, Golam Kasem Daddy/Drik, Abdul Hamid Kotwal/Drik, Nasir Ali Mamun/Drik, Rashid Talukder/Drik, Mohammad Ali Salim/Drik) 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh [ 21 January – 11 April 2010 ] The work of Bangladesh’s … Continue reading →

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The familial order, not easily undone

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 22, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, … Continue reading →

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Family secrets, state secrets

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 27, 2008

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 →

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1971 as I saw it

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 26, 2007

Thirty five year ago, even longer perhaps, just a camera in hand, they had gone out to bring back a fragment of living history. Today, those photographs join them in protest. Peering through the crisp pages of the newly printed … Continue reading →

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