Mickey Rat: When the going gets tough…
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Disney: No more Mickey Mouse
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Savar: Total eclipse of the state
Alal O Dulal collects different views on rescue operations.
Didar Hossain visits Aanna Akhtar in hospital Photo: David Bergman
Blogger Nazrul: “Savar is being rescued by the common people of this country– from [religious] huzur to heavy metal listening punk kid; from scarf wearing girl to super mod girl, from lungi and torn genji wearing low-income labor to shirt-pant wearing bhadralok. Everyone is here to help others. Human is for human, they proved it again today. Continue reading
“Bangla Death”: How the world sees us after Savar & Tazreen
Benetton, Mango, Joe Fresh, Primark: Global Supply Chain of Death
© Syed Zakir Hossain/ Dhaka Tribune
“Ether 33, Phantom Apparel Ltd and New Wave Apparel which were housed on the third to seventh floors of the building were supplying well-known international labels including British retailer Primark, Italian fashion brand Benetton and Spanish clothing label Mango.” Continue reading
Hate Crimes after Boston: Bangladeshi network engineer becomes “fucking Arab”
Abdullah Faruque
As Faruque, a Bangladeshi-origin network engineer, turned to return to his meal, one of the other men said: “Yeah, he’s a f–king Arab,” leading to a brutal pummeling that dislocated Faruque’s left shoulder and left him semiconscious. Continue reading
Greece, Blood Strawberries, and Hate Crimes crisis
Bangladeshi workers shot for demanding wages
“About 30 migrant workers, mainly Bangladeshi, have been wounded in a shooting on a strawberry farm in Greece after requesting salaries that had not been paid”
Bangladeshi migrants shot in Greece
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Dhaka’s “tristate area”: Elitism, Self-Hatred, and Lungi War as Class War
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The naming of Banani-Gulshan-Baridhara as the “Tristate area” indicated a winking nod to the American “tristate” (NY-NJ-CT), and the elite bubble nature of the B-G-B triangle.
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