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A Bangladeshi Storyteller in the US
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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...
Rumki Chowdhury - Another Bangladeshi storyteller in America
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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, high...
Arundhati Roy Interview and first short fiction published...
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Magazine| Jul 28, 2008 interview And A Fleece That's As White As Snow 'What does it matter if I fail
TELLING BENGALI STORIES IN POETIC STYLE
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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 th...
BANGLADESH WAR CRIMES STIR TENSION – a BBC article on Ban...
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As Bangladesh's bloody war of independence from Pakistan came to its end, Dr MA Hassan went in search of his brother.
TELEGRAPH TO THE SKY – a poem from South Africa
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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 ...
In the glare of the martinets
from ekram.kabir in Books, Fiction
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 be...
Who says Islam allows multiple marriages?
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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.
Bangladesh media: Going gets tough
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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...
Blues for Allah by Bangladeshi writer Ahmede Hussain
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Hussain. Blues for Allah / AHMEDE HUSSAIN 9,666words. Staff Writer The Daily Star 19 Karwan Bazaar. D
Eclectic
scribbled: The Quran says in Surah 2 verse 223, "Your women are a tilth for you, so go to them as you will". This is the sanction for marital rape. The Hadood ordinances on rape requires 4 witnesses on behalf...
sandeep196
scribbled: ok dude .. you have made your point that islam is very very unfair on women .. islamic law and practices are all anti women and pro - men to the point of being barbaric! now i have a few questions ...
Eclectic
scribbled: I agree that political correctness has been carried too far in some situations. Not only that, feminism seems to be a fine device to allow highly political and/or fruitcakes (and often professional...
The Islamist by Ed Husein: A young man in search of faith
from ekram.kabir in Research, Humanities
The Islamist by Ed Husein: A young man in search of faith Jackie Kabir As the name suggests, it is a
Ekram Kabir's articles on Corporate Social Responsibility...
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These articles were written for The Financial Express of Bangladesh; they were published in 2003 and 2004.
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mindnbrain
scribbled: Good work, Mr. Ekram Kabir. What about your articles after 2004?
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Manzu Islam: Creator of the first literary map for Brick ...
from ekram.kabir in Books, Fiction
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, especia...
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Arundhati Roy Interview and first short fi... 1,104 Reads |
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Mughal Rule and Ghunghat of Indian Women 6,019 Reads |
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TELLING BENGALI STORIES IN POETIC STYLE 14,502 Reads |
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I don’t care; I’m leaving Facebook 915 Reads |
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Brick Lane made passionately impassionate 483 Reads |
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SILENT NOISE – a Bangladeshi short story 3,488 Reads |
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Manzu Islam: Creator of the first literary... 571 Reads |
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Ekram Kabir's articles on Corporate Social... 3,282 Reads |
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The Islamist by Ed Husein: A young man in ... 484 Reads |
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MonsoonLetters Issue April 2008 - A Bangla... 1,345 Reads |
