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History’s ghetto – (Geneva Camp, Dhaka)
My recent piece for the The Friday Times – about the bitterness and destitution in a Dhaka camp for Biharis It was almost by…
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Erasing memory to deal with loss – Pakistan, Bangladesh and India
This following article was first published in The Hindu on December 16, 2011. Forty years ago, South Asia underwent another traumatic experience with the…
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Fables of Nationalism
Published here: The recent hullabaloo over the Delhi Commonwealth Games has been followed with much interest in Pakistan. Many have gloated over the inability…
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To undo the vicious past
Published in the News on Sunday It’s about time a civilian Pakistan functions as a peaceful country with fair share of resources put into…
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1971: the forgotten silence
Published in The NEWS This week marks the 37th anniversary of the tragic events of 1971 that led to the dismemberment of Pakistan and…
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We can smile in adversity too – the Biharis in Bangladesh
I took this photo at a Bihari camp in Dhaka. Thousands of ‘Pakistanis’ are stranded in Bangaldesh since 1971 and both the states refuse…
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M.F. Husain, Tyeb Mehta are stars at Christies
Saw this story here a while ago Christie’s South Asian modern and contemporary art sale here March 20 will feature works of leading 20th…
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SAARC students display their multifaceted art skills
By Hina Farooq LAHORE: An exhibition of the South Asian Association and Regional Corporation (SAARC) students of the Beaconhouse National University on multi art…
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Dhaka by degrees
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees. -William Shakespeare I grew up in the post-East…
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The Clay Bird
A moving tale of a young boy and his family trapped in the circumstances of rural Bangladesh and the turmoil of late 1960s. I…
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Visiting Dhaka- “We are strangers now?”
The warmth of people and the magic of old Dhaka overwhelms you. Having said that, Dhaka is bursting on the seams with a gushing…
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Sonargaon – A poem by HUR
HUR left this poem on my blog in response to my post on Bangladesh and Bengali art. This is a moving poem with tender…
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Freedom Dawn?
It is 14th August today. My country is fifty nine years old. It is much stronger than it was in 1947. It is still…