By Ôrūp I. When will men speak up to their own kind? That is the question. Until that becomes par for the course in the near future, we shall know that men aren’t willing to give up their entitlements. Imagine silence. At the very suggestion you might have closed your eyes and thought of a …
At the heart of facile liberalism is the kernel of fascism waiting to explode. That’s my distillation. We are now seeing it as a global phenomena.
There’s been a societal earthquake on American Muslim Twitter and Facebook this week. Nouman Ali Khan, one of the most charismatic and popular preachers who lectures around the world and runs Qur’anic Arabic classes with hundreds of thousands of students, has had allegations of “improper conduct with women” leveled against him by Omer Mozaffar, …
It is certain that the present Rohingya sensation will soon die down, and be replaced in public memory by something far more banal. For now, international aid will flow in, journalists will fly in and young activists will donate from their own pockets. Then, when the headlines wane and public fancy shifts, the latest entrants …
By Nayma Qayum Bangladesh has stepped up to accommodate the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees arriving from Myanmar. In the last three weeks, over 370,000 refugees have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state. That’s well over a third of the country’s total Rohingya population. Those arriving describe horrors – burning villages, children flung …
Recently, I got involved in a heated argument about Islam and the Muslim world on Facebook, that quickly turned vicious and ended up lasting for several hours. To say I “got involved” would be a little dishonest – I did start it, one way or another, and I shouldn’t be surprised at the response. Since …
Interviewed by Nadine S. Murshid and Ôrūp I. Photo: Awrup Sanyal Kabir Suman, a songwriter, a singer, a musician, a journalist, an author, an activist, and an ex-parliamentarian (Lok Sabha, Parliament of India, 2009-2014), probably needs little introduction. About a quarter century back when Suman burst into the musical firmament of Bengal it was a …
By Ôrūp I. [Please note that the review might reveal more than you want to know before reading the book. I would say skip it and read the book.] Anyone interested in Bengal’s premodern to modern history – through the Delhi and Bengal Sultanates, and the Mughal rule in India, and consequently in Bengal – …
I was at a four-person adda a couple of weeks ago where I was the only woman. One of the three men pretended I wasn’t there about 98 percent of the time. He never made eye contact with me. When he spoke, which was a lot of the time, he looked at the other men … Continue reading
// by Nadine Shaanta Murshid // I tried an anti-depressant for one week and this is how it went. I’ll start with day 3, because the first two days were a blur. I went and “loved” a bunch of photos of friends and acquaintances on social media. Their display of happiness genuinely made me happy. … Continue reading
Armin Zaman Khan for Ergo Mag The World Economic Forum has persistently pointed out “Climate Change” as one of the most pressing issues of the 21st Century. The primary human activity affecting the amount and rate of climate change is greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions which increases the greenhouse effect and causes Earth’s surface temperature to rise. … Continue reading
By Shubha Bala On Wednesday, January 25, nearly 600 people from community groups, faith-based groups, Institutions, City Council Representatives, and Brooklynites (based on the cheers from the crowd) launched a hate free zone in Kensington, Brooklyn. Continue reading
By Thenmozhi Soundararajan I marched in the Women’s March, Washington, as a proud Dalit-American. I marched for many reasons but here are some of the most important. Continue reading
By Sonia Joseph Shailaja Padindala’s Malayalam-language movie, Memories of a Machine is a ten minute, one-woman film, starring Kani Kusurti that attained internet viral-ity in recent months. Continue reading
By Farhat Rahman On April 25 2016, two LGBTQ activists in Bangladesh, Xulhaz Mannan and Tonoy Mahbub, were brutally murdered in the Kalabagan area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Continue reading
The forest is home to the fabled Royal Bengal Tiger By Vijay Prashad [First published at AlterNet] At the edge of the great Sundarbans, in Bangladesh, sits the town of Rampal. Continue reading
Understanding the Fidels of the World requires Empathy-based Nuance: Embrace and Teach It Atif A. Choudhury In 2006, during my junior year in high school, I had a research assignment in my honors Spanish class where I was tasked with writing about a topic of my choice involving Cuba. Since even then I was a … Continue reading
By Subhalaxmi Chakraborty, Sushrita Acharjee, Shrestha Bhattacharya, Srijoyee Banerjee, Ankhi Chakraborty, Aradhita Biswas, Monalisa Mukherjee, Baishali Dutta, and Sohini Sarkar Aim “We read to know we are not alone.” ~ Shadowlands, William Nicholson This adage, however, fails to be relevant as the ever-growing literary tradition of the world proves to be an infertile field for the … Continue reading
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