From shahidul at drik.net Fri Jan 13 15:53:32 2012 From: shahidul at drik.net (Shahidul Alam) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:53:32 +0600 Subject: [shahidulnews] Times they are a changing Message-ID: <5A37B0DE-8C31-4B3A-B38B-DC547A78CB8D@drik.net> Rumblings of unrest in the cantonment filter through the winter fog. The blog has a new look thanks to the upgrade by Michel Dumais.A belated Gregorian New Year greeting and an advanced Chinese New Year greeting to you all. They are from Dhaka, and arrived in Brasileia the night before. They slept on the ground in the main plaza, having nowhere else to go. For obvious reasons, they look tired, but still muster the energy to smile wide and often. Bangladesh in the Brazilian Amazon | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com By Gabriel Elizondo in Americas Aljazeera Wed, 2012-01-11 03:55. In the northwest Brazilian Amazon town of Brasileia, population 20,238, there are almost Long before CSR had become a buzzword and superstars and corporates began to find it essential to have pet social causes to support, we had set up Drik, a small organisation in Bangladesh, which made social justice its raison d??tre. Not for art?s sake | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com ?// Abstract of keynote presentation given at National University of Taiwan 8th January 2012. Taipei Subscribe to ShahidulNews One of the videos My Journey as a witness reviewed on Italian Vogue - Vogue.it www.vogue.it My Journey as a Witness, amongst "Best Photo Books of 2011" list by American Photo The Best Photo Books of 2011 | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews The list is in: our 50 favorites of the year, spanning fine art, photojournalism, culture and Sayed Asif Mahmud channels Moriyama for an expressive view of his city and country Meanwhile, In Bangladesh? | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Meanwhile in Bangladesh...; a2a_config.linkurl = American Activists and the Birth of Bangladesh | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = American Activists and the Birth of Bangladesh; a2a_config.linkurl = Just uploaded the Crossfire portfolio in my new Behance Network. The show is planned to tour Bangladesh and also show in Queens Musuem in New York. Looking for activist organisations who might disseminate at grassroots level. Crossfire www.behance.net An installation with photographs, text, video and a Google Earth Map, with interactive elements in gallery space. Drik calendar 2012 now out: A moment of crisis, a celebration, the unexpected, a dream realized, hidden truths, a reaffirmation of what we knew. Through TV screens, newspaper pages, giant electronic screens and tiny handsets, we gather, sift, scroll and parse news unfolding. Through twitter feeds, facebook and blogs, we circulate the news that we are fed, to inform, alert and mobilise those around us. Occasionally we question. The news photograph brings down powerful autocrats, highlights the plight of a single child, shines a spotlight on communities in strife, ignites the passion of victory, shares the tragedy of loss. People?s News | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = People's News; a2a_config.linkurl = ?Now an extraordinarily courageous Arab player has stood up, and fearlessly indicated that he is not afraid to play for Beitar. The Jerusalem squad did not assent to his request ? not because he lacks sufficient talent, but because he is an Arab. By James M Dorsey Taking Beitar to task: Mohammed Ghadir | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews !-- BEGIN --> var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Taking Beitar to task: Mohammed Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to Guant?namo Bay. Americans face Guant?namo detention after Obama climbdown | ShahidulNews By Chris McGreal in Guardian www.shahidulnews.com var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Americans face Guant?namo detention after Obama climbdown; a2a_config.linkurl = In my opinion, Bangladeshi scholars have uncritically empoyed the notions of ?tradition? and ?modernity? which has bogged down their intellectual efforts, marring what are, by all other considerations, meticulous and painstaking studies (?labours of love?) on Rokeya. By Rahnuma Ahmed http://www.shahidulnews.com/2011/12/re-reading-begum-rokeya-?-part-ii www.shahidulnews.com Re-reading Begum Rokeya for me, has involved taking stock of what has been written about her. Of critically thinking through what sense we have made of her life and struggles, her achievements, what we think she was up against and why. It has meant engaging with some thorny issues in feminist theory. By Rahnuma Ahmed http://www.shahidulnews.com/2011/12/re-reading-begum-rokeya-?-concluding-part www.shahidulnews.com The stocks began to plummet almost immediately after trading began in the morning and plummeted by almost 200 points within an hour. The general index ended at 7654 by the close of the session Wahid Adnan Wins Award of Excellence in CPOY | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Wahid Adnan Wins Award of Excellence in CPOY; a2a_config.linkurl = On 13 June 1971, an article in the UK?s Sunday Times exposed the brutality of Pakistan?s suppression of the Bangladeshi uprising. It forced the reporter?s family into hiding and changed history. Bangladesh war: The article that changed history | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Bangladesh war: The article that changed history; a2a_config.linkurl = Majority World is a not just a new photo agency but rather a social enterprise, that works with very talented photographers from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. They bring this vision to the old world, facilitating in the process the emergence of a strong local photographic creative culture. Majority World featured in 2011?s Best Photo Blog | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Majority World featured in 2011's Best Photo Darwin?s contribution to many fields of science, from evolution to geology to botany, are well-known ? but it turns out he was also a seminal figure in the history of visual culture. http://www.shahidulnews.com/2011/11/how-darwins-photos-of-human-emotions-changed-visual-culture www.shahidulnews.com Political independence and freedom for Asians and Africans was apparently ?disruptive? for European colonisers, who, in Retinger?s view, were infinitely more ?valuable? than the lesser humans who overthrew their rule. By Rahnuma Ahmed CONCLUDING PART THE BILDERBERG CLUB | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = CONCLUDING PART THE BILDERBERG CLUB; a2a_config.linkurl = The Republican Party (US) is secretly controlled by elitist intellectuals who are dominated by the Bilderberg Group, their internationalist policies will pave the way for world communism.? ?It is a secret cabal that runs the world.? ?Presidents and prime ministers are selected by the Bilderberg.? By Rahnuma Ahmed PART II THE BILDERBERG CLUB | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews Conspiracy theory, or global power structure? By rahnuma ahmed Speculation about the Bilderberg Group runs rife at both ends of ?The post office issued new stamps with Zardari?s face on them but they had to be withdrawn because the public found them too confusing: it was impossible to tell which side to spit on.? Sense of humour failure | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Sense of humour failure; a2a_config.linkurl = Fans were shocked when Batman writer Frank Miller furiously attacked the Occupy movement. They shouldn?t have been, says Rick Moody ? he was just voicing Hollywood?s unspoken values. Dare to Share? (Thanksgiving Thoughts) | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNewsBy Arjun Janah var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Dare to Share? (Thanksgiving For pepper spray and rods and boots, when used on those who?re darker Or poorer may be quite okay ? and safely out of sight, Or even guns and bullets, used when we?re asleep at night, But when it?s done in daylight, with reporters gathered near, To those who?re lighter, richer ? why, then some refuse to cheer, By Arjun Janah/Babui Dare to Share? (Thanksgiving Thoughts) | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNewsBy Arjun Janah var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Dare to Share? (Thanksgiving Pathshala's Khaled Hasan amongst ten journalists from around the world have been awarded the 2011 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship. Khaled Hasan wins 2011 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Khaled Hasan wins 2011 Dart Center Ochberg Death is always difficult to talk about. This is a difficult piece to read, but moving for its frankness. I am going to Die on Monday at 6 15 pm | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews When Marc Weide's mother who was 65 was diagnosed with terminal cancer, she chose euthanasia. Here, we publish his shockingly The inaugural talk at the Pop Tech Conference in Maine on 20th October 2011 Pop Tech | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com ?// Subscribe to ShahidulNews The inaugural talk at the Pop Tech Conference in Maine on 20th October 2011 By any means necessary! That was a phrase used by Malcolm X, I believe, for which he was reviled. But we see it in action here, as police check microphones to follow orders. Ultimately, their orders are coming, not from their superiors in the police hierarchy, but from those higher up in the feeding chain on which our society is based. By Arjun Janah We teach life sir | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = We teach life sir; a2a_config.linkurl = Two powerful voices of resistance. Rafeef Ziadah and Malcolm X. We teach life sir | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = We teach life sir; a2a_config.linkurl = Steve Inskeep talks to Shahidul Alam, a former chemist who became a photographer because he was tired of seeing images of the developing world through the lens of Western photographers. He now runs an art gallery, a photo agency and a school of photojournalism in Bangladesh. He recently published a book of stunning photographs called My Journey as a Witness. Photographer Sheds Light On Bangladesh | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = Photographer Sheds Light On Bangladesh; a2a_config.linkurl = Twenty-one-year-old Shankar Sarkar is both perturbed and fascinated by the surroundings he grew up in ? a red light area in the city. Shankar?s discomfort resulted in him dropping out of school but his enchantment led him to click a series of photographs of his mother, eventually enabling him to find a niche for himself in professional photography. Playing with light in the darkness | ShahidulNews www.shahidulnews.com Subscribe to ShahidulNews // By Ananya Dutta The Hindu Kolkata, November 15, 2011 Twenty-one-year-old Shankar Sarkar is both perturbed and -------------------------------------------- Until another?s prosperity gives one joy; until another?s sorrow gives one pain; until the betterment of another becomes one?s concern; until one is liberated by another?s freedom; victory over another, will be a defeat for oneself. 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