Category Archives: Video
Gita Sahgal on 1971 War Crimes
Love, Kolkata style
From Kolkata’s Shree Venkatesh Films
She: “Do you love me?”
He: [nods]
She: “What’s your name?”
He: “Nur Islam”
She: “Hmm, Muslim?” Continue reading
Kafil Ahmed: No more Press Note
K-Prime: Dark Nights | Bright Dreams
From K-Prime bio: These days in hip-hop when you hear the word Bangladesh you expect to hear the ever-present “a milli” beat following. However, to hip-hop’s newest recruit, K-Prime, Bangladesh is more than a producer’s signature drop, it’s his birth country. Moving from Dhaka to the Borough of Queens, New York at age three, Prime, who was born Anik Khan, was immediately introduced to music and politics by his father who was a poet and a political representative in his home country.
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Qurbani Style
Who speaks for Bangladeshi New York: amateur terrorist Nafis or party-boys Cosmics?
Or, something else altogether?…It is a gratuitous and simplistic binary, but we at AoD could not help notice that the same week that amateur terrorist Nafis’ photo was plastered on a shrill and scaremongering media (with the words “Bangladeshi” attached to an escalating fear narrative), the other face of Bangladeshi youth in New York is The Cosmics’ brand new video.
