Limon affair: Dear RAB, next time please finish your job!

June 14, 2011
Afsan Chowdhury
Limon affair: Dear RAB, next time please finish your job!

The Limon incident where a young boy was shot in the leg by RAB while the elite ‘crime fighting’ force was conducting a raid, and the national drama that followed is not about law and order but about the nature of the legal state of Bangladesh. On one side, stands the official world while...
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Azam Khan: our king of pop is dead, long live the king

June 6, 2011
Afsan Chowdhury
Azam Khan: our king of pop is dead, long live the king

Azam Khan is dead bringing an end to a life that symbolised his generation more than anything else. He was a cultural legend in his lifetime who achieved such a status more quickly than any other Bangladeshi. He sang of frustration and anger, in the earlier days of the ‘70s but mellowed as time...
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