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		<title>Eid Literature Specials 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in the mid 1800s, magazine publishers in England launched Christmas specials to provide cheap reading material to the aspiring middle classes. The colonial conduit brought the custom to Calcutta, and when Bengali periodicals emerged, they launched holiday specials for Durga Puja. In the early 1900s, when Bengali Muslims started magazines they pioneered similar specials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Mahmudul Haque (1941-2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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&#34;One day everything becomes a story&#34;


An abridged version of this article appeared The Daily Star on 2 August 2008.


Three years after partition, a ten-year-old boy nicknamed Botu moved from Barasat, now across a border, to Dhaka, settling with his family in the new flats built in Azimpur for government employees. At West End High School, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yaba Sundori: real life clobbers fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One hot release at this year&#8217;s Boi Mela was the novel Yaba Sundori.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; The phrase had only been coined last November with the police campaign against the methamphetamine drug marketed as Yaba. That was our News of the Hour, the Sensation of the Month. 
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; What a sensation that was. It began with a circle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brushes with Faith, Sin, and the Weird</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in my car, driving. The cell phone pressed against my ear, I&#8217;m listening to a funny story about Muslim speed dating in Houston. The next minute, my eyes take over. Just ahead, to my right, is the tallest cross I&#8217;ve ever seen, its metal body gleaming in the morning sun. A few dozen people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limits of satire</title>
		<link>http://www.mahmudrahman.com/society/limits-of-satire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, September 18, Arifur Rahman, a 20-year old, was picked up from his Uttara residence, interrogated by police intelligence, and then sent to jail. His offense? He was the author of a cartoon that appeared in Alpin, the weekly satire supplement to Prothom Alo, the largest circulation Bangla newspaper in Bangladesh. The sub-editor responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking backwards: 1947 and after</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mahmud</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When the white crescent on green flag was hoisted in Dhaka, as the Raj took leave, I was yet to be born. The only family story I have heard of that day is that my Dada &#8212; really my Nana, my mother&#39;s father &#8212; lit a cigarette. He was not a smoker.
&#160;&#160; &#160;Lighting a cigarette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do people smash cars?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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On the second and third day of the protests last week, there was widespread bhangchur. 
&#160;&#160; &#160;I like the sound of that Bangla word. It&#39;s not in my Bangla dictionary but the way it sounds echoes the meaning of the word. Bhangchur evokes the sound of sticks on steel, the shattering of glass. There are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No room for mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am riding the No. 6 bus between Gulshan 1 and Farmgate. The bus is crowded, though I managed to get a seat. At Mohakhali, the bus gets into a race with another No. 6 bus. They edge past one another. First the other one gains the advantage. Now ours does. Meanwhile, traffic around us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A trivial event?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying to make sense of the events that started with the Dhaka University students flaring up in protest on Monday, August 20.
Nearly everyone calls the initial event that sparked the rebellion a &#39;tuccho ghotona&#39; - a trivial or insignificant incident. The next morning, when I wrote in my journal I found myself accepting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support the BNWLA shelter campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Andrew Morris, originally from Wales now living in Dhaka &#8212; a teacher, writer with a keen eye and a fast pen, and a musician with a mean mouth on the soprano sax &#8212; has launched a campaign to raise funds for a new shelter for survivors of trafficking, rape, domestic slavery, and exploitation. [...]]]></description>
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