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The Glorious and Bloody History of Tamil Language Movement
The Glorious and Bloody History of Tamil Language Movement By Shafiqur Rahman for AlaloDulal There is a widespread misinformation in our country that we, Bengalis, are the only nation to shed blood for...
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Ekusher Prothom Kobita
Ekusher Prothom Kobita By Ikhtisad Ahmed for AlalODulal History exists in the abstract. Vague theories are posited, established and refuted, but rarely felt. Over the years mankind has perfected this...
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সুপ্রিয় তালুকদার: মায়ানমারে চম্পকনগরের পথে
মায়ানমারে চম্পকনগরের পথে সুপ্রিয় তালুকদার for alaodulal.org [ বংশানুক্রমে জানা যায় যে চাকমারা চম্পকনগর নামক স্থান থেকে পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম ও তৎসংলগ্ন অঞ্চলে এসেছে। কোন চম্পকনগর থেকে এসেছে তা নিয়ে মতভেদ...
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আদিবাসী শিশু পড়বে নিজ ভাষাতেই
একুশের সংবাদ: আদিবাসী শিশু পড়বে নিজ ভাষাতেই by Biplob Rahaman for AlalODulal.org কিছুদিন আগে বিশিষ্ট আদিবাসী গবেষক, চাকমা রাজা দেবাশীষ রায়ের সঙ্গে আলাপ-চারিতা হচ্ছিল আদিবাসী শিশুর মাতৃভাষায় লেখাপড়ার...
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The Face of Dipjol
The Face of Dipjol By Arafat Kazi for AlalODulal.org “Tolowar chalabo ami! Tor Dadima buritar matha kete aaj ami football khelbo. Kothaye? Kothaye Jannat Begum?” In the movie Dadima, Dipjol’s...
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Sexuality as Liberation? The Work of Salvation Narratives in Neoliberal Times
Sexuality as Liberation? The Work of Salvation Narratives in Neoliberal Times By Dina Siddiqi for AlalODulal.org “As many readers have pointed out, women and girls rarely go to mosques in Bangladesh,...
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Liberation through the Gunday lens
Liberation through the Gunday lens By Fahima Durrat for AlalODulal.org Factual errors made in a fictitious storyline may seem like a trivial matter, but they can hide icebergs. The iceberg that showed...
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T20 Debate And Narcissism Of Small Differences
Narcissism of Small Differences: Some Comments on the T20 Debate and on Nationalism in the Era of Neoliberal Globalization by Humayun Kabir for Alal O Dulal The ICC T20 World Cup Theme Song and the...
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Remembering Garcia Marquez: Latin & Bengali novel, finding the self, or the...
লাতিন ও বাংলা উপন্যাস: আত্মের হদিস কিংবা উপন্যাসে আদমসুরতের নকশা ফারুক ওয়াসিফ যে জগতের গিঁট ছিঁড়ে গেছে, যার মন থেকে মুছে গেছে দুর্ধর্ষ সব কল্পনা, যে হারিয়ে ফেলেছে স্বপ্নজননক্ষমতা, সেই … Continue reading →
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A Way of Living Lost In ‘Selfie’ and ‘WhatsApp’
A Way of Living Lost In ‘Selfie’ and ‘WhatApp’ By Garga Chaterjee for Alal O Dulal Our neighbour of many years, Ananda Santra, died yesterday. Anandda kaku lived in our apartment complex in the Chetla...
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Remembering Historian Amalendu De
It is due to the initiative of Professor Amalendu De that the grave of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, one of the vanguard thinkers of equity and rationalism in the subcontinent and … Continue reading →
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AOD Interviews Kabir Suman — Kobigan, the lost musical heritage of Bengal and...
Kabir Suman, a songwriter, a singer, a musician, a journalist, an author, an activist, and an ex-parliamentarian (Lok Sabha, Parliament of India, 2009-2014), probably needs little introduction. About a...
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তোমার যাওয়া হবে না কবি/You Can’t Yet Leave, My Poet
by Shamit Mahbub Shahabuddin English Translation by Awrup Sanyal for AlalODulal.org তোমার যাওয়া হবে না কবি আর একটু হাঁটো কবি পথ চলা এখানে থামালে যে চলবে না, আমার তো এখনও অনেক … Continue reading →
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শব্দের উৎস নিয়ে রাজনীতি জাতীয় ঐক্য ও স্বার্থের পরিপন্থী
শব্দের উৎস নিয়ে রাজনীতি জাতীয় ঐক্য ও স্বার্থের পরিপন্থী আহমেদ শামীম “তারা “জয় বাংলা” বলে না, বলে “জিন্দাবাদ”। যেটা উর্দু শব্দ। বাংলা ভাষায় “জিন্দাবাদ” বলেContinue Reading
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AJ, Arrival of a Bangladeshi Hero
AJ, Arrival of a Bangladeshi Hero by Irfan Chowdhury for AlalODulal.org Bangladeshis rarely get to cheer their heroes, but when they do they are euphoric.Continue Reading
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In the Light of What We Know: A Novel that Defines Our Times
by Lamia Karim for alalodulal.org A mathematician by training, Zia Haider Rahman’s debut novel is a literary masterpiece. It is a deeply unsettling novelContinue Reading
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Ahmed Shamim: Colonisation Of Bengali Language and Tagore – Open vs Rigid...
Colonisation of Bengali Language and Tagore – Open vs Rigid discourse by Ahmed Shamim “বাংলা ভাষার উপনিবেশায়ন ও রবীন্দ্রনাথ”ঃ বদ্ধ বনাম মুক্ত আলোচনা আহমেদContinue Reading
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The Selling of Lalon Phokir
The Selling of Lalon Phokir by Zaid Islam for AlalODulal.org Lalon Phokir has always been important to us for the past hundred years. But recentlyContinue Reading
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Piash Karim (1958-2014) : Language, nation, and multiplicity
AlalODulal mourns the sudden passing of Professor Piash Karim. We reprint here one of his early essays, from 2005, on the dilemmas of nationalism. -EditorialContinue Reading
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Shahidullah Kaiser’s Son Speaks: Forgive me father, I could not keep this...
“A country whose soil is soaked in the blood of the martyrs, a country whose soil still bears witness to the history of genocide — the soil of that country will receive the body of the Captain of the...
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