Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, one of the leading progressive intellectuals and educationists of the country, was stabbed multiple times by a bearded man while on stage at an event he was attending as chief guest in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) campus, Sylhet.
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Bangladesh: An attack on us all | Taqbir Huda
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The anatomy of another riot | Shiv Visvanathan
2 March 2018Kasganj is a metaphor for the emerging everydayness of riot-induced violence
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SherAli Tareen’s Book Review of Muslim Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Empire by Seema Alvi
1 March 2018review of Seema Alavi’s book on Muslim Cosmopolitanism. ’At the crux of Seema Alavi’s Muslim Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Empire is an argument for decentering the normative claims and aspirations of British colonial modernity. This it seeks to do by reorienting our understanding of the modern career of Islam in South Asia.’
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Mapping Mob Lynching in India
28 February 2018Mob lynching across India - 2015-2017 https://public.tableau.com/profile/furquan7794#!/vizhome/Moblynchingmap/Sheet1
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What the Merger of Nepal’s Communist Parties Means for Their Two Leaders and India | Vishnu Sharma
28 February 2018The long-awaited unification of Nepal’s two big communist parties, the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), has concluded. The two parties have signed a seven-point agreement that accepts Marxism and Leninism as guiding principle and calls for establishing the party’s hegemony through peaceful means.
