Alma earns Taka 2000 to 2500 per day by begging. However, she has to pay 700 taka per month as house rent. Since her husband’s death seven years ago she says she is helpless with her nine years-old physically handicapped boy Almas. These recent days have been very difficult for her since she can neither manage food, house rent nor buy medicine for her ill child. She says she has heard that the government has special allowance for disabled children and she has been trying to enlist her son’s name with the local chairman who has continuously refused her request. Kamrangirchar, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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A curfew was declared. Streets were off limit to the public while jeeps and truck-loads of military personnel were coming out of the barracks. Those boots that left the cantonment on January 11, 2007 keep stomping Bangladesh to date, one year on. Shot from […]

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[Rezwan, Germany.]
Recently I reported about bloggers reactions on the controversies surrounding an exhibition of the masterpieces of Ganges in Mus

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He who raised his hand in defiance against the brutal military junta in Bangladesh embossing a slap on the monster’s face will undoubtedly remain our hero for years to come. He who spat at tyrants and refused to give a “confessional statement” when coerced […]

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Talk about press freedom under a shariah state, a khilafat, where divinely appointed ulemas will carry out the even more divine task of dictating the public mind. Enter Hizb ut-Tahrir — a global Islamic political party working for the reestablishment of Khilafat — […]