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Happiness is a Trial
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...
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Is it only survival? Is it politics without science?
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...
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Memories of her Father
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...
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Legal Matters
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...
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Introduction to Mahmud Hasan’s The Utopia of Student Movement
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...
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Bathing in the Buriganga
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...
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Burning Sensation and the Case of ‘Classical Music Festival’
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...
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Our Political Misomusists
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...
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Reingkhyong Lake: The Forgotten Frontier of Bangladesh
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...
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Eight drawings for December 16th
Eight drawings for December 16th a set of drawings by Faheem Haider for AlalODulal.org
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Thine Kingdom Is Mine
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...
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Embrace Love
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...
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Mehreen Ahmed: Juxtaposed Realities: Dhaka
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...
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Goodbye 2013: The Older You, the Younger Me
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...
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Taslima Nasreen, ‘Duhsahobas,’ and a TV cancellation
“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...
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I sing a song of unity
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...
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Justice Habibur Rahman (1928-2014)
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...
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Suchitra, please don’t go
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...
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Haider A. Khan: Nazrul’s Poetics
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...
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My Cartographer
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...
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