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Ahmad Ibrahim

Of minoritisation and symbolic violence

Following the collapse of the government, reports began to circulate of attacks on temples, establishments and persons belonging to minority groups (that is, those of non-Bengali and non-Sunni Islam origins). News of these attacks themselves began to be weaponised, by regional and international interests, in a bid to reinforce the illusory narrative set by the Awami League.
8 October 2024, 12:26 PM

Ghartera Edition 0: Junkyard

“Unlearning is a long process”. It’s doubtful to me that if we were to assemble an ensemble of artists, curators, gallerists, collectors
9 May 2019, 18:00 PM

The Life and Times of Liverpool Fans

For a brief moment, in the 50th minute of the Champions League final in Kiev, Liverpool fans across the globe were seized by a sudden and inescapable madness. They had seen their talisman Salah trudge off in tears, breaking a million hearts in the process. They had seen Jürgen Klopp's plans of suffocating this seasoned Madrid side torn to shreds by an infuriating, and yet undeniably excellent, display of cynical
30 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Re-thinking 'Poverty' in Bangladesh

New measures of income inequality
14 September 2017, 18:00 PM

Hool Johar: Revisiting the eternal Santhal Revolution

The Santhal Rebellion led to a calculated genocide by the British army who burned down hundreds of villages and killed and raped over 15,000 Santhals to quash their resistance.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM

'Unnoyoner' budget

Understanding the budget during the era of development.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM

The last days of an ecology

Gondamara union is not only incredibly disconnected from the rest of Banshkhali upazila and the greater Chittagong area, it isalso one of the most vulnerable places in the country to cyclones and tidal flooding.
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM

Ahmed Sofa In Posterity - Muslim Anxiety In A 'Muslim World'

We begin at a time after the battle of Karbala, where the traitor Simar is carrying Hazrat Hossain's disembodied head to Damascus in the hopes of getting a sizeable bounty.
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM

The Fourth Estate

The concept of democracy is ever-evolving since the Greco-Roman experiments with the idea of allowing a group of people to decide
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Foreign investments under a heterodox microscope

Economics is not a science. As much as those of us studying and practicing the discipline would like to place it in the same category as the hard, positivist sciences, the fact of the matter is that it simply isn't. Unlike the hard sciences, we cannot embark upon environmentally controlled experiments using humans as lab rats to find out the truth of a particular economic theory.
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Facebook and the myth of free internet

Almost a year ago, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose made the comment that
31 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Cha-erDokaan, On the Other Side of the World

It had been almost a year and a half since I had been home. Home, noun- the place where one lives permanently, especially as a
28 January 2016, 18:00 PM

A Fight for Land and Livelihood

Mondagini Bakti stands in front of me with her left hand on her hip and her right hand outstretched towards the light, her palm stained with the yellow of ground turmeric.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

The Bangladesh We Speak of, 45 Years on

Picture a scenario where Mustafizur Rahman, the mercurial new addition to the Bangladeshi cricket team, claims a hattrick in the penultimate over of a game...
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

A Revolution Hundred Years in The Making

There is a movement rising at the periphery of the country, where tea workers are finally taking to the street in a coordinated move against the century-long oppression they've been facing.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

The Birth of a Panopticon State

When the Awami League came to power in 2008, it was amidst the backdrop of a real possibility of military rule entrenching once ...
14 January 2016, 18:00 PM

A Failure of the Eurozone

As with any case of austerity politics, the biggest losers were the working class, as conditions of free market investment benefitted the capital-owning class. These harsh measures eventually led to mass unemployment and underconsumption and as a result the economy suffered even more, worsening Greece's plight.
7 July 2015, 18:00 PM

An unconventional perspective

In any case, the lowering of corporate tax is bad for the economy holistically as it will serve to widen inequality between the super-rich and the waged worker.
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM
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