Subscribe to ShahidulNews Newsweek by Alexandra A. Seno ‘Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force’, Seher Shah. Seher Shah / Courtesy of artist and Bose Pacia, New York “Why have there been no great women artists?” asked American art historian … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Anne Holmes The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such … Continue reading
rahnuma ahmed She jumped down from the police van and tried to escape. It stopped, they hunted her down by torchlight, dragged her back and drove off. Men, gathered around the tea stall, wondered why the car had stopped. Curious, … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed [the relationship between class struggle and women’s liberation is] very close. Women were the first to be oppressed, and will be the last to be liberated when class oppression ceases. So the test of … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews ] by rahnuma ahmed `You should not have written about such sensitive issues in such indecorous language,’ faculty members at Jahangirnagar University (JU) told me and my ex-colleague, Manosh Chowdhury. It was 1997, four years before I … Continue reading
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
Subscribe to ShahidulNews She would put on a burkha every morning so that choto chacha, my dad’s younger brother, could drop her off at her parents. He would take her to her college instead. That was how Quazi Anwara Monsur … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews At 17 Mozammat Razia Begum is older than most of the girls in her class at the Narandi School. She was married at 15 but her husband abandoned her. ‘If I had been educated he would not … Continue reading
