Mime show depicts July mass uprising
Renowned mime artist Mir Lokman depicted student-led July mass uprising and contemporary issues in a solo mime show at the experimental theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday...
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Sangbadpatre July Obhyutthan launched
Sangbadpatre July Obhyutthan, a compilation of the front page of 25 leading newspapers of the country during the July mass uprising by journalist Ahammad Foyez was launched at a programme at the Bangla Academy seminar room in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday...
Attacks on the police suggest fragile law and order
ATTACKS on the police and police stations in different parts of the country in the past few weeks suggest a worrying law and order situation. The attacks were perpetrated by activists of different political parties, including the ousted Awami League. In a recent incident, activists of the Awami League attacked a police vehicle at Sujanagar in Pabna on February 2 and...
Justice for mass killing demanded
The Democratic Students鈥� Alliance on Wednesday afternoon held a demonstration demanding justice for mass killings during the July uprising, and financial assistance for families of the martyrs...
DU MCJ dept discusses July uprising graffiti
A presentation and discussion titled 鈥楪raffiti in the July Mass Uprising鈥� was held by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka on Wednesday...
Committee formed for July uprising memorial museum
The government on Saturday formed a 17-member committee for July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum with writer and filmmaker Ebadur Rahman as its convenor...
AL propaganda machinery spreads misinformation: discussion
Speakers including journalists and activists at a discussion in Dhaka said on Monday that the 鈥榩ropaganda machinery鈥� of the Awami League was spreading misinformation and disinformation even after the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina amid the July mass uprising...
Towards July 36
JAMES C Scott, who passed away on July 19 this year, was a prominent political scientist and anthropologist known for his interdisciplinary work platforming the ways ordinary people resist domination, emphasising the value of local knowledge, hidden transcripts of resistance, and the limits of centralised power. To me, the character is vehemently...
A major challenge ahead
THE student-led July mass uprising for a democratic political and economic order, which culminated in the ouster of the brutally authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina from power, forcing her to flee the country and take refuge in India, the hegemonic neighbour that patronised Hasina to cling to power without proper people鈥檚 mandate for years, has installed an 鈥榠nterim government鈥�, led by globally known Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, to fix the order 鈥� if not fully democratise the state...