1. Wind of Change? By Alena Kahle Bangladesh 2018 “There is a wind of change is blowing in the country’s politics.” Thus Daily Star quotes Professor Al Masud Hasanuzzaman (1). On the 30th of December 2018, Bangladesh will be voting on the 11th consecutive...
Protests led by youth are met with violence; attempts of dissent are suppressed. How I recovered from a terror attack by Bonya Ahmed @ TEDxExeter Bangladesh 2018 In Bangladesh, mass outrage over two teenagers killed in a road crash escalated into a social movement,...
Bangladesh in the Human Rights Council: Why it is Ironic – a Legal Analysis By Alena Kahle Bangladesh 2018 On Friday, October 12th 2018, Bangladesh was elected to serve on the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. Countries are frequently rotating within the...
The Ekushey Book Fair is the single most important literary event in Bangladeshi culture that has a proud history going back to the Bangla language movement of 1952. The book fair had been the main congregation of authors and readers in Bangladesh, and a festival that...
Simple narratives can be deadly How I recovered from a terror attack by Bonya Ahmed @ TEDxExeter At the Ekushey Book Fair, in Dhaka, 2015, Rafida Bonya Ahmed and her husband, Avijit Roy, were targeted by Islamist terrorists in a brutal attack, leaving her gravely...
A Poet of Bangladesh’s Past and Present – a Tribute to Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 120th Birthday Bangladesh 2019 “Of equality I sing: where all barriers and differences between man and man have vanished, where Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, and Christians have mingled...
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