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Category Archives: Diaspora
Surplus Lives! Great Offers!
Surplus Lives! Great Offers!
Image: © Saydia Gulrukh
A sky-blue orna with white and sequin embroidery drenched in sand water lay on the floor. Continue reading
Sayedee is Not The Victim Here
London protest/from ICSF page
From ICSF (International Crimes Strategy Forum) page:
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British Bangladeshi “Power 100″
BRITISH BANGLADESHI POWER 100 list has been released. Problematic concept (“Power”), fuzzy categories, and bizarro inclusions (Gaffar Chowdhury!), but here it is– for blog dissection.
Women
1. Irene Zubaida Khan
Human Rights Activist
Irene is Chancellor of University of Salford and in 2001 she was the first woman, the first Asian, and the first Muslim to guide the world’s largest human rights organization, Amnesty International as its seventh Secretary General. Continue reading
Language Holding Back New York’s Bengali Voters?
BY NINA PORZUCKI ⋅ NOVEMBER 2, 2012 ⋅ 
Barbershop in Queens, New York (Photo: Nina Porzucki)
Once a month Zain Ahmed treks from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to a windowless basement shop in Jackson Heights, Queens, just to get his haircut. “I take 3 or 4 trains just to get here,” says Ahmed. “That’s dedication, right?”
Sal Khan: Disruptor
Bangladeshi-American Sal Khan on cover of Forbes magazine.
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Judge to Rezwan Ferdaus: “search your own soul”
“I, the other, the uniquely dressed, the lone man in these hours, I speak of humanity,” Ferdaus told the court. “No dehumanisation can serve as justification for inhumanity in other places.“
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