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Housekeeping note: I’m away on holiday until June 7. This is an updated version of a post that originally appeared in August 2024
The ‘second liberation’ of Bangladesh?
A repost, after talking to Tahmima Anam, whose new novel has a remarkable uprising
TWTB in conversation with Tahmima Anam at the Khushwant Singh Literary Festival in London
The Big Story:
Bangladesh is in the news in the creative and finance worlds, nearly two years after an uprising that ousted its autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
- Bangladesh-born prizewinning author Tahmima Anam just published her fifth novel Uprising, about woman power, and TWTB spoke to her at length at a literary festival in London.¹ (More to come on that.)
- The International Monetary Fund chief for Bangladesh has said the country has requested a new financial aid package, a sign that its economic situation remains doleful.
This Week’s Books:
- An anthropologist assesses crowds as a political actor in Bangladesh.
- Fact disguised as fiction from the life of a child during the first liberation of Bangladesh.
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