by Nusrat S Chowdhury[Originally published in American Ethnologist website, 19 October 2020] Secret sociality now carries a whiff of resistance. Before Covid-19 had fundamentally reorganized the world in which they lived, they were young, able-bodied men. You’d spot them selling … Continue reading A Storm in a Teacup
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”
“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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“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””
