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Zoheb Mashiur

The West, FIFA and Us: We're all being hypocritical about the World Cup

Pro-migrant, anticolonial discourse has been weaponised to support Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup
1 December 2022, 14:30 PM

Mermaids aren’t real, and neither is race

Our current conceptualisation of race derives heavily from the last couple centuries of European imperialism.
11 October 2022, 12:00 PM

Declan Walsh's 'The Nine Lives of Pakistan': A journalist explains the country that banished him

In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by “angels”.
2 June 2021, 18:00 PM

An anarchist retelling of Tintin

The globetrotting hero-reporter, he of the blonde quiff and the plus four trousers, had many an adventure throughout a 46-year-long run under
5 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Revisiting the only book written by an Indian about the Indian soldiers of WWI

Tens of thousands of men sailed across the ocean to a land they’d never before heard the name of. They fought long and hard, in the world’s
30 September 2020, 18:00 PM

The Dead Can’t Dance

The death’s head is panther-stalking her through the party. Bodies washed in neon pink ebb and flow, sinking and rising from the shadows as light thrums.
21 November 2019, 18:00 PM

The trap of Re-Orientalism

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” wrote Rudyard Kipling, a man with a silly name who only had a career because West met East and immediately mugged it, running off with wallet, shoes and pants. Through Kipling’s pen, the British
22 August 2019, 18:00 PM

World’s marrow

The old demon king was named Jael and he had a hunger for meat.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM

A REALLY WEIRD STORY ABOUT FLOWERS

I'd be the first person to admit that I have no clue about flowers. At most I can identify a sunflower or a rose – but only if it's red.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM

The Preacher pilot reveals little - Great cast, though.

AMC's Preacher is the adaptation of a comic book that many would consider unfilmable. Watching the pilot that came out on May 22, someone unfamiliar with the story may not see why that would be the case.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM

YouTube for Sword Geeks

Are you tired of all the history experts that crop up on your news feed every season of Game of Thrones? Disagree with that “Tower of Joy fight choreography sucks!!!” thread on TV Fanatics?
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM

My Private Country

In November of 1871, the Welsh journalist Henry Morton Stanley successfully found the long missing, legendary medical missionary David Livingstone.
11 May 2016, 18:00 PM

WHEN SPORTS CLUBS - TRIED REPLACING AN EMPEROR

Long before it became Istanbul, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
30 March 2016, 18:00 PM

GAMES INSPIRED BY HISTORY

I love history and most what I know, I learned from video games like Age of Empires. And that's funny because history will be twisted in service of better gameplay. What a game can do, however, is use its systems to teach you enough to get you interested in learning more. At times conveying the spirit of an age is a more effective deed than getting the details exactly right, and there is no more immersive medium than the video game.Now, local history is tragically unrepresented in games. We have two Bangladeshi-made shooter titles that deal with our Liberation War; last year's Heroes of 71 and 2004's Arunodoyer Agnishikha. From way out of left comes Paradox Interactive with Crusader Kings 2, which has been expanded to include Bengali characters. It is much that these games exist, but we can do so much more. So here's a list from the SHOUT team of possible ideas for historical games set in Amader Shonar Bangla.
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Give Peace a Chance (or Else)

Sengoku Jidai was a period in Japan's history when every samurai and their granddaddy wanted to be the shogun, chief of warriors and the real authority in the country.
9 March 2016, 18:00 PM

XCOM - 2: WELCOME BACK, COMMANDER

XCOM 2 is the very definition of a flawed masterpiece.
2 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The Climb to Tiger's Nest

Tiger's Nest, more properly known as Taktsang Palphug Monastery or Paro Taktsang, is the most well-known of the many pit-stops...
17 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The Hottest Trend in Medieval Japan

“Hereafter, the guns will be the most important arms. Therefore decrease the number of spears per unit, and have your most capable men carry guns.”
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM

All Them Witches Brewing Magic

The third studio album by Tennessee four-piece, All Them Witches is their most confident work to date.
27 January 2016, 18:00 PM

KING OF KINGS: The Life and Death of Haile Selassie I

You ever have those mornings when you wake up to people thinking you're Jesus?
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM

One of Us is the Killer

And Then There Were None is the quintessential murder mystery. It remains Agatha Christie's finest work: elegant in its premise...
13 January 2016, 18:00 PM

An Abominable Mess

If you haven't yet seen the special episode of Sherlock that came out on January 1, don't read past this paragraph. What will follow is a spoiler-heavy analysis...
6 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Tipu Sultan: Rocketman

Imagine you're a young Scotsman. You took a job as a security guard for a multinational corporation operating in India, because it's...
6 January 2016, 18:00 PM

TABULA RASA

“Now the man of the hour is taking his final bow.” -- Pearl Jam, 'Man of the Hour'
28 October 2015, 18:00 PM

What your Qurbani animal says about you

During this time of the year, you're only as memorable as your cow or goat.
23 September 2015, 18:00 PM

E01: It's a Boy!

It was a bizarre little ad, and one Paul Wickens wouldn't have taken seriously if the press hadn't been covering Tabula Rasa so obsessively.
19 August 2015, 18:00 PM

MAJESTY: THE FANTASY KINGDOM SIM

The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, The Witcher… excellent franchises that let you run around on epic quests in fantasy worlds.
1 July 2015, 18:00 PM

Stormy-eyed

Thunder-witch.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM

Pagination

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