DHAKA: A mob attacked members of Creative Writers Association –– seen as a platform of pro-Liberation War writers –– when they tried to hold a rally in Dhaka Saturday to protest the cancellation of March 7 and Aug 15 as “national days”.The mob of around 100 reportedly assaulted several protesters with sticks and chased them […]
The prolific author Sudeep Chakravarti’s 10th book, Fallen City, is about Delhi, where two children, Geeta and Sanjay, were brutally murdered in 1978. He places the crime in a socio-political context. Chakravarti’s own life is as interesting as his work and he has just emerged after three years in Dhaka, where he set up a […]
“Made our house with blood Delhi tries to scare us with water” Thus reads a couplet from a popular poet in Dhaka: Hasan Robayet. He has been a key figure in the recent student movement in Bangladesh that ousted Sheikh Hasina on August 5. Since then, Hasina has remained in India, which has only added […]
