Oct 6, 2021
REVEALING TRUTH THROUGH STORIES OF WEAPONIZED IDENTITIES AND CLASS CONFLICTS
Saadia Azim, will join us on OCTOBER 6 at 9 PM Bangladesh time to discuss her book "A NARROW LANE AND OTHER STORIES ." All the stories included in this book are based on real-life experiences. Saadia has masterfully crafted social reality into compelling short stories. These stories portray the interplays of weaponized identities and class conflicts in India. Fiction affords us a better means to tell the truth when telling the truth to the power is treated with unrestrained retribution.
Oct 1, 2021
REFLECTIONS ON THE POLITICS OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Dr. Ankita Banerjee (King's College London), is a Tagore researcher. Her dissertation establishes Rabindranath as an important political theorist, one of the many contributions of Tagore which has not been adequately explored. Dr. Banerjee's research looks into how Santiniketan was an expression of Tagore's political philosophy which was a noticeable departure from the contemporary nationalist ambiance. Ankita has brilliantly portrayed Tagore, the educator, as an intense political figure of twentieth-century Bengal. Pedagogy is inescapably political: Tagore was one the finest the world has seen in participating in politics through pedagogy.
Sep 27, 2021
Film Discussion: Bangla Surf Girls
My upcoming guest Elizabeth D. Costa tells a powerful story of teenage girls who Dared to Dream and Rode the Turbulent Waves of Society and the Sea in her latest documentary film BANGLA SURF GIRLS.
Sep 26, 2021
Technology Addiction and the Mental Health of Bangladeshi Netizens Amid Covid Crisis
My upcoming guest Enayet Chowdhury and I will engage in a dialogue about the ethics of technology design on Sept 26. We will try to unpack how the tech titans have become the attention merchants reducing the technology users into mere means for profit generation in many ways affecting our mental health adversely. We must recognize that the tech titans are not taking responsibility for adversely impacting our netizens' mental health. Technology is just a tool to make our lives easier, but if it is designed disregarding the well-being of the tool-users, we are in trouble.