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A Bangladeshi Storyteller in the US

Born in Sylhet, Rumki Chowdhury's family moved to the United States in 1989 when she just turned three. She was in the Bronx, New York City, and later moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Her Feet Chime, Chowdhury's first novel is the Bangladeshi version of the Cinderella story. Chowdhury had her BA in English with writing concentration from William Paterson University. In an exclusive interview for ...
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Rumki Chowdhury - Another Bangladeshi storyteller in America

Born in Sylhet, Rumki Chowdhury’s family moved to the United States in 1989 when he just turned three. She was in the Bronx, New York City, and later moved to Paterson, New Jersey. Chowdhury’s Her Feet Chime is the Bangladeshi version of the Cinderella story. Because it is set in Bangladesh, highlighting its culture and values, it may be considered Diasporic. Chowdhury had her BA in English wit...
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Arundhati Roy Interview and first short fiction published in Outlook

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TELLING BENGALI STORIES IN POETIC STYLE

Creative writing gurus say title of a novel of a book always matters to the readers. If a book has an attractive or meaningful title along with good content, the book has all the chance to be gleefully accepted among the audience, the readers as well as critics. Many opine the title tells half the story of a book, even a collection of short stories. Take Jhuma Lahiri’s forst collection of short...
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BANGLADESH WAR CRIMES STIR TENSION – a BBC article on Bangladesh genocide

As Bangladesh's bloody war of independence from Pakistan came to its end, Dr MA Hassan went in search of his brother.
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TELEGRAPH TO THE SKY – a poem from South Africa

Sandile is a long lost friend; we met in Bangalore in 2000 at an alternative media conference; we were in touch for next two years. I printed this poem in Dhaka-based daily The Daily Star. After that, mails to him kept bouncing. I lost contact with Sandile. Sandile: if you are reading this, send me your contact, at least the email ID. Mine is ekram.kabir@gmail.com. I just heard a few years ag...
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In the glare of the martinets

No one, except a cadet in Bangladesh going off to join an alien institution, understands how it feels like going away at a very tender age. No one can imagine what a 12-year-old boy has to go through when he is sent off to a cadet college. No one but a cadet will understand what sort of man he becomes when he experiences all trials and tribulations, happiness and blues when he passes out of a c...
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Who says Islam allows multiple marriages?

A common belief among the Muslims in Bangladesh society that a man can marry four women was questioned at a recent workshop in Dhaka. Bringing a very important issue to light, the workshop also discussed a wide range of issues relating to Islamic treatment with women.
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Bangladesh media: Going gets tough

The media is doing wonders in today’s world of continuous flow of breaking news, views and photographs. People these-days don’t even think of spending a day without being touch with the media. Frankly, people globally have become very much dependent on the media: the daily development around them. Politics, economy, lifestyle, human rights, crime and even traffic jams – all these matter so much...
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Blues for Allah by Bangladeshi writer Ahmede Hussain

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Mughal Rule and Ghunghat of Indian Women

This is a good one!
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The Islamist by Ed Husein: A young man in search of faith

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Ekram Kabir's articles on Corporate Social Responsibility in Bangladesh

These articles were written for The Financial Express of Bangladesh; they were published in 2003 and 2004.
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Manzu Islam: Creator of the first literary map for Brick Lane

A Bangladeshi young writer Syed Manzurul Islam - he now calls himself Manzu Islam – thought it was important to write about Brick Lane much before Monica Ali possibly thought of it. In some of the stories of The Mapmakers of Spitalfields, Islam describes what it is like to be Bangladeshi, especially an illegal Bangladeshi in East London. In Burrow, Manzu Islam is in his literary height. Burrow ...
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SILENT NOISE – a Bangladeshi short story

This is a story about helplessness of a woman who faces flood waters creeping in her home in an urban setting; this is based on a true incident. Jackie is writing more short stories...
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Brick Lane made passionately impassionate

Salaam Brick Lane is an honest account of what led Tarquin to be in Brick Lane and what happened once he was there. How did he end up in Brick Lane? He says: “For the past ten years, I had been living away from England - the last three in India. On my return it had been my intention to put down roots in the leafy suburb of Barnes where I had grown up. But London property prices had shot up; I ...
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I don’t care; I’m leaving Facebook

This is the first ever article on Facebook in Bangladesh media. And it was published in Daily Star magazine in Dhaka...
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