Crowd, Contagion, Corona
The migrant worker has become an uncanny figure both familiar and foreign. Rumor and hearsay of contagion and spontaneous violence make up this biopolitical regime. Continue reading Crowd, Contagion, Corona
Author: nusratchowdhury
A Storm in a Teacup
As if free speech were deadlier than the virus. For many who were picked up, disappeared, or imprisoned, that’s exactly how it was. Continue reading A Storm in a Teacup
“Picture-Thinking”: Sovereignty and Citizenship in Bangladesh
It focuses on two public texts, a national identification card and a censored photograph, both generated during a state of emergency in Bangladesh, from 2007-2008. Continue reading ““Picture-Thinking”: Sovereignty and Citizenship in Bangladesh”
American Apparel, gain cheap popularity, but do not act as the grand savior
“more than three million women have been guaranteed jobs through the RMG sector, thus uplifting their status within the family, the society, and the state. If anyone has demolished the wall of repression, these are the millions of women workers of Bangladesh. If anybody has tasted freedom in whatever sense, it is these women. American Apparel, gain cheap popularity with your tantalizing ad all you want, but do not act as the grand savior…”
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Humayun Ahmed: “Jahanara Imam Is Her Name”
“Jahanara Imam Is Her Name”
by Humayun Ahmed, translated for AlalODulal.org by Nusrat Chowdhury
It was around 9 pm. I was writing. Suddenly my younger daughter came running, “Baba, a very famous person has telephoned you!” Continue reading “Humayun Ahmed: “Jahanara Imam Is Her Name””
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