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Happiness is a Trial

September 30, 2013, 1:48 am
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By Awrup Sanyal for AlalODulal.org Jaron and Ashanti walked towards the large wood and glass door at the top of the stairs. Squeezed in by the swell of the crowd from the hall they moved in step. All the while Jaron video-taped the crowd on his smartphone. The music was pumping, the chatter deafening, the […]
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Is it only survival? Is it politics without science?

October 3, 2013, 10:27 am
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Is it only survival? Is it politics without science? Re-conceptualizing the resistances against the Phulbari Coal Mine Project in Bangladesh with the mediation of archaeological practice Swadhin Sen The use of ‘is’ in the title is deliberate, denoting that the resistance against the Open Pit Coal Mining project of Asia Energy Corp. (AEC) is not […]
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Memories of her Father

October 17, 2013, 7:49 am
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Memories of her father Lisa had always envisioned Bengal as a land of unsurpassable warmth and beauty.  Now that she was here, she thought of all those moments when her mind had done a scene-by-scene play of how she would feel when her flight touched down in Dhaka.  Would her first aerial view be of trees […]
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Legal Matters

October 23, 2013, 4:34 am
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By Ikhtisad Ahmed for AlalODulal.org Joya was far from comfortable. The metallic desk-chair had gaping holes in its plastic upholstery. The sharp edges of these gaps protruded outwards and mischievously jabbed the unfortunate occupier. She had positioned herself on the brink, which had no tears, but the rusty metal frame pressed against her thigh coldly. The […]
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Introduction to Mahmud Hasan’s The Utopia of Student Movement

October 25, 2013, 11:05 am
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Introduction to Mahmud Hasan’s The Utopia of Student Movement by Nazmul Sultan for AlalODulal.org A poet by vocation, Mahmud Hasan lived in and through politics. That Mahmud Hasan did poetry under the condition of politics is not a historical anomaly. Sharing each other’s orbit, modern Bengali poetry and politics grounded themselves in an intersected domain. […]
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Bathing in the Buriganga

November 24, 2013, 1:27 am
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Bathing in the Buriganga Faheem Haider for AlalODulal.org Faheem Haider is an artist, writer, art critic, and political analyst. He studied at SUNY New Paltz, the London School of Economics, and New York University.
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Burning Sensation and the Case of ‘Classical Music Festival’

December 5, 2013, 11:57 pm
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Burning Sensation and the Case of ‘Classical Music Festival’ by Seuty Sabur for Alal O Dulal I have never been a fan of ‘Prothom Alo’ but I do admire their power to master the wind and change their palates accordingly. Oh! How beautifully they manage to stir  up the sentiments of both agony and ecstasy […]
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Our Political Misomusists

December 7, 2013, 3:29 pm
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 Our Political Misomusists by Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org It is an elementary fact of linguistics that the same word can carry different meanings. In particular, the word ‘Indian’ can have multiple meanings. A recent article (titled “Classical Music Festival 2013, India and our vulgar civility”) in the political blog Nuraldeen takes a few pot-shots at the massive and […]
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Reingkhyong Lake: The Forgotten Frontier of Bangladesh

December 9, 2013, 10:02 pm
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By Devasish Roy-Wangza for AlalOdulal About thirty-five of us – including six women and about ten local men porters – took a seven-day trek from Farua village within Farua Union (“For-ua” in Tanchangya), Bileisori sub-district of Rangamati hill district to Bethuni Para, Ruma sub-district, Bandarban hill district, all within the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in […]
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Eight drawings for December 16th

December 15, 2013, 4:01 pm
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Eight drawings for December 16th a set of drawings by Faheem Haider for AlalODulal.org
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Thine Kingdom Is Mine

December 19, 2013, 5:19 am
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by Ikhtisad for AlaloDulal.org *** Nazrul died today, newspaper says, Spelt his name wrong, common mistake: Unimportant, not an op-ed or commentary, What does it matter anyway? Father is well and mother survives, My abode keeps me warm - Veritable ivory tower, for far away It is from the damned land. Boy of nine this […]
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Embrace Love

December 23, 2013, 10:20 pm
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Embrace Love by Shamsul Islam They call it the love campaign. We called it the last embrace. They say we are the happiest people in the world. Because we are denied our pain. She could have been my sister. He could have been my brother. She could have been my lover. Me, running towards her. […]
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Mehreen Ahmed: Juxtaposed Realities: Dhaka

December 27, 2013, 9:46 pm
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Juxtaposed Realities: Dhaka A short story by Mehreen Ahmed On a chilled grey dawn, I hear a call out. I get out of bed fumbling, and reach for my shawl. Somewhat disoriented and half asleep, I make my way through to the roof of my bedroom. Eyes still squinting, I bend over the brick, short […]
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Goodbye 2013: The Older You, the Younger Me

December 31, 2013, 2:50 pm
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The Older You, the Younger Me by Lori Simpson for AlalODulal.org I caught my reflection One sunny morning. In a shop window. I was a bit older, She a bit younger. Stylish all the same. I stopped and smiled, She fixed her hair Neither of us waved. She looked to the future, And I to the past. […]
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Taslima Nasreen, ‘Duhsahobas,’ and a TV cancellation

January 10, 2014, 11:52 am
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“Taslima’s misery somehow leads us to the crossroad where an imminent change of path is indispensable. The consolidation of secular liberal voices in the subcontinent who would vociferate not against the chauvinism of religious majority of a nation but against all the extreme elements of any religion across the border and battle for the absolute […]
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I sing a song of unity

January 14, 2014, 1:04 am
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গাহি সাম্যের গান/ I sing a song of Unity Lyrics by Kazi Nazrul Islam Photos by Shahnaz Parvin “হিন্দু হিন্দু থাক, মুসলমান মুসলমান থাক, শুধু একবার এই মহাগগনতলের সীমা হারা মুক্তির মাঝে দাঁড়াইয়া মানব তোমার কন্ঠে সেই সৃষ্টিতে আদিমবাণী ফুটাও দেখি। বল দেখি “আমার মানুষ ধর্ম”। মানবতার এই মহান যুগে একবার গন্ডী কাটিয়া বাহির হইয়া […]
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Justice Habibur Rahman (1928-2014)

January 14, 2014, 4:18 am
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Justice Habibur Rahman (1928-2014) by Faruk Wasif, translated by Nadine Murshid for AlalODulal.org Let people judge Justice Habibur Rahman. They have his writings to judge him by. I can only think of the last time I saw him. It was December 23, 2013 at his residence. When he saw me he cried ‘Ki hain’ (What’s […]
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Suchitra, please don’t go

January 15, 2014, 1:17 am
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Suchitra, please don’t go by Ashif Entaz Rabi, translated by Nadine Murshid for AlalODulal.org My father and I are watching television together. On screen Suchitra is sitting behind Uttam Kumar on a motorbike. E poth jodi na shesh hoy tobay kamon hoto tumi bolo toh. (How would it be if this road was unending?) Suddenly I was […]
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Haider A. Khan: Nazrul’s Poetics

January 23, 2014, 12:03 pm
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Nazrul’s Poetics: a polyphonic discourse of the multitude Haider A. Khan for Alalodulal.org  Nazrul burst forth on Bengal’s literary scene at the end of the First World War, like a Nietszchean ‘dancing star’.[1] His meteoric rise to literary fame and political notoriety, just as much as his untimely and tragic eclipse, may have prevented the […]
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My Cartographer

January 31, 2014, 7:27 am
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My Cartographer by Awrup Sanyal for Alalodulal This city now wears a different look, walks a different gait, hides and reveals differently, calls out from nooks I never knew existed. Streets with unknown names have now stepped out of their anonymity, their hundred years of sleep, shaken my hand and wrapped around my ankles, calling out in […]
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