Bangladesh posts

Highlighting with tin foil and chewing gum

Friday, January 25th, 2008

This saloon is almost as good as Mad o Wot? in Bandra (via Reddit).
Related posts: Seen around Harlem, Chimbai diurnal

All quiet on the eastern front

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Tahmima Anam, who like the artist formerly known as Prince has her own first-name domain, read from A Golden Age tonight at Harvard Book Store. She says she intended to do the Bangladeshi War and Peace, but realized she was much more interested in writing about the impact of the war on ordinary people […]

The rape of Dhaka

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

All right, Bostonists: Tahmima Anam is reading tonight in Harvard Square. Show your face. Be fashionably late. But come for the ironically-named A Golden Age – one of the first Bangladesh war novels I’ve heard of, nominated for a Guardian book prize — and samosas afterwards in one of the many desi restaurants which litter […]

The Kick

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Leave it to a Bangladeshi kung fu fighter to show us the proper relationship between government and the governed:

… it was an image that deeply upset the Bangladeshi rank and file. Its publication was seen as a humiliation, every bit as great as if that flying sandaled foot had been aimed at the behind of […]