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Kalpana’s Family: Living Under State Surveillance

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 12, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews by Saydia Gulrukh ‘Do the words of all witnesses count equally?’ asks Kalpana Chakma’s brother Kalicharan Chakma. He brings out his diary as he talks to me and says, ‘I have learned from the tragic mistake that … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 2, 2001

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of press photographs could successfully counter that sort … Continue reading →

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