Her husband, Shomlal Das quietly preparing for her cremation. They forgot to bring sindhoor. She is a married dead. She must wear sindhoor, someone from the small crowd whispered. They opened the bodybag. Part of her face was smashed, there was barely any hairline. Shomlal sprinkled sindhoor on her face... He pauses and sighs, “the government officer just treat every dead as muslim.”
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Category Archives: People
Omar Faruk Babu Remembered
1. Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org
Louis Ferdinand Celine one said that the good ones should have some kind of marking to set them apart from the rest of humanity. One of those good ones was Babu. Continue reading
AMA Muhith: Greatest Hits, 2010-2013
May 4, 3013: Factory collapse “not serious” and I am “not worried”
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Prayer for The Missing
The Great Eternal Silence
By Aquinas T. Duffy
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Missing in the darkness,
vanished without a trace,
with only the memories and photographs,
to fill an empty place.
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There Will Be Blood
There Will be Blood
Shafiqur Rahman
Every country in the world, rich or poor, dreams of striking big reserves of oil. Why shouldn’t they? Striking oil is equivalent to winning the lottery prize. Continue reading
The Rise of Mahmudur Rahman: Bangladesh Politics & Game Theory

The Rise of Mahmudur Rahman: Bangladesh Politics & Game Theory
by Zia Hassan, translated from Bengali by AlalODulal.org (original Bengali at end)
Mahmudur Rahman. The country’s most divisive figure. And the country is clearly divided. Mahmudur Rahman is the unchallenged leader of one side of that division. BNP is now only a side-show. And I don’t think BNP realizes that yet. Continue reading
Comrade Binod Bihari Chowdhury (1911-2013)
Sometimes you wait your whole life to meet someone properly.
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