The growing circle of intolerance
On the night of 26th February, blogger and writer Avijit Roy was hacked to death in the Dhaka University campus. His wife Rafida Ahmed has also been critically wounded. There are disturbing photos...
View ArticleWhy I do not agree with the Editors Council
I disagree with the Editors Council – the small group of chief executives and editors of Bangladesh’s few print newspapers based mostly in Dhaka. Its latest statement, signed by its general secretary,...
View ArticleThe man and the dog
“It might not be safe for you to come back here,” a friend told me over the phone last week. “I know,” I replied. “I’ve already thought of that.” It was February 23, and we were discussing an article I...
View ArticleKilling freedom, muzzling dissent
The gory murder of Avijit Roy in the streets of Dhaka sparked due anxiety about the persistent brutality against dissenting voices. Rickshaw, the students’ collective at South Asian University in New...
View ArticleOur disaffected masses and the jaded
A little over a month ago, in the last few days of the Ekushey Book Fair, writer Avijit Roy was brutally murdered. His wife sustained injuries, and more importantly has possibly been scarred for life,...
View ArticleBangladesh v. Religious Extremists
Nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism are the four fundamental principles of the Bangladesh Constitution. Ironically we are living in a country where the constitution speaks for secularism,...
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