Rituparno Ghosh (1963-2013): “Mathura Nagar Pati Kahe Tum Gokul Jao”
by Seuty Sabur, for AlalODulal.org
I am not able to concentrate for the past two days. It has been pouring since Thursday. The rain nor sun affects my mood that much, wind does… and there were gusts of wind coming in circles…potted plants at my office windowpane committed suicide twice; they were too fragile to withstand the wind. Continue reading
Rabindranath Tagore’s Assassination of Female Characters in ‘Chaturanga’
by Andaleeb Shahjahan Purba, for AlalODulal.org
Source: BBC
ঋতুরাজ, ঋতু নির্বিশেষে (The King of all seasons, despite seasons)
by Gargi Bhattacharya for AlalODulal.org
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Continue reading
© Suvra Kanti Das
Missing poster at Adhar Chandra school wall. Name: Ashma Aktar from Khulna.
Murder not tragedy
A project at Drik Gallery
An exhibition of observations, both witnessed and imagined of the rana plaza collapse.
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Source: Internet
My loss did not have any vocabulary
Guest Post by Erinyes
For years, my loss did not have any vocabulary. There was no word that I could use in my mind. There was no word for it. Only “that”. Only “that” which I could not turn around or change. Continue reading
Desperate measures (that remind us of an earlier time)
by Irfan Chowdhury, for AlalODulal.org
© Dhaka Tribune
Some of us who are old enough to remember the heyday of the Ershad regime lament, even today, the suppression of free speech and freedom of media that we suffered. In those pre-cable TV/internet/smartphone days, BTV and Betar (Radio Bangladesh), under the strict instruction of the state, was forced to blow the trumpet for the regime, and had to be economical with the truth. Continue reading
© Ayon Rehal
Did “NGOization” deradicalize the women’s movement?
by Seuty Sabur for AlalODulal.org [please do not reprint without permission]
I thought of writing this essay on 11thMay itself, after attending the Women’s Grand Rally. But we had to finish cataloging the missing persons’ photos from the Rana Plaza collapse, and tabulate their data for the archives. We, meaning the Chobbishe April (April 24) collective – activist anthropologists, sociologist, journalists and photographers – had to continue to count the bodies. Continue reading
