Subscribe to ShahidulNews Eid at Shaheed Minar by rahnuma ahmed We’d mourned deaths from road accidents at central Shaheed Minar earlier as well. When we rallied in support of Viqarunnisa students protesting against school rape, we had risen to grieve … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed Apnader naamte hobe, he said, after I’d mentioned the personal exigencies which led to my two-week absence from these pages. He’s a good friend, a careful and discerning reader of what I write. You … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews by rahnuma ahmed A vicious cyclone had struck the night before. Dawn, stillness. A calm and eerie light. I tagged behind my older brothers as they ventured out, gazing in awe at a neighbouring house, its roof … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed Honouring Begum Rokeya, the prime minister Sheikh Hasina at Begum Rokeya Padak 2010 programme, Osmani Memorial Auditorium, Dhaka, December 9 2010. Photo: Yasin Kabir joy/focusbangla. crop: Mir Ashfaquzzaman Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, currently the … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed “…my revenge would be just another part of the same inexorable rite. I have to break that terrible chain.” (Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirit, 1982). But to break the “terrible chain” of vengeance, … Continue reading
By Rahnuma Ahmed Apnader kacche desh boro, na Chhatra League boro? If anyone had asked Awami League leaders this question right after the national elections in December 2008, they would have— without a shred of doubt—chorused, desh. Desh. In all … Continue reading
Rahnuma Ahmed I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.’ — Antonio Gramsci, Marxist theorist, politician, founder of the Italian Communist party Electoral democracy It was a victory for electoral democracy. I was the first one … Continue reading
Elections are a big thing in Bangladesh. Going back to his village at peak season was an expensive option for my neighourhood fruit seller, Siddique Ali. The election wasn’t so critical in his case, as his candidate was going to … Continue reading
The material that follows has been provided by the New Internationalist A STATE OF DANGER This is Shahidul Alam’s inside story, in words and pictures, of the intense struggle against repression which has been raging in Bangladesh, unnoticed by the Western media. … Continue reading
