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Journeying with Mahasveta Devi

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 3, 2012

This is a sequel to an earlier film ‘Journeying with Mahasveta Devi’, and the second in the trilogy being made on the Magsasay Award winning writer-activist made by Drik India. The viewed and the viewer, the act and the response, … 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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Poems of war, peace, women, power

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 8, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Suheir Hammad I will not dance to your war drum. I will not lend my soul nor my bones to your war drum. I will not dance to your beating. I know that beat. It is … Continue reading →

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Poet With a Kodak and a Restless Eye

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 13, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By HOLLAND COTTER Published: September 12, 2010 WASHINGTON — The poet Allen Ginsberg, who died in 1997, adored life, feared death and craved fame. These obsessions seemed to have kept him, despite his practice of Buddhist meditation, from sitting … Continue reading →

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Painting and Photography

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 6, 2009

The Golam Kasem Lecture Series By: Dhali Al Mamoon 6th September 2009. Drik Gallery Dhaka Painting and Photography Dhali Al Mamoon Is there an art form that does not draw upon other disciplines? Are literature, music and architecture not informed … Continue reading →

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she had a dream…

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 9, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed “A lion is stronger than a man, but it does not enable him to dominate the human race. You have neglected the duty you owe to yourselves and you have lost your natural rights by … Continue reading →

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The Price of Peace

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 25, 2007

I am the rage I am the storm My path I leave barren and shorn Swaying in my crazy dance I rejoice at all I face Move at my own pace I grapple my foe I wrestle to die I … Continue reading →

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The First Element

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 10, 2003

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Poem on Waterwall at exhibition “The First Element” at the National Art Gallery Malaysia. Water Fluid, flowing, feeling, water Life, death, birth, union, water Meandering, shaping, eroding, changing, water Cosmos, clouds of gas, the ice age, frozen … 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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