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<title>Saad Z. Hossain on Djinns, Dhaka and the Unlikely</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We have to look at how ideas are combined and developed in the sub continent, and find our own heritage that we can be proud of. We cannot erase thousands of years of mythology indigenous to our region simply because we have a thin patina of Arab faith. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:26:01 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Seven Deadly Sins Reading List | Gluttony</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Beneath its extraordinary descriptions of food lies a rather bitter account of bourgeois complacency, where having enough is treated as a virtue and wanting something different becomes a threat. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:47:11 +0600</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>Seven Deadly Sins, Gluttony, Margaret Atwood, Nikolai Gogol, Lionel Shriver, Émile Zola, Asako Yuzuki</media:keywords>
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<title>Rubaiyat Hossain on Women, Cinema and The Difficult Bride</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Women are not a homogeneous group. A woman’s socioeconomic circumstances, political background, sexuality, and many other aspects of her identity shape the particular set of struggles she encounters. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:23:38 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Unmaking of a Girl in Rene Karabash’s She Who Remains</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The irony is brutal. The same patriarchal system that renders her life intolerable also provides the only sanctioned route out of it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:16:59 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Seven Deadly Sins Reading List | Lust</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In the hands of Flaubert, Lawrence or Duras, lust becomes a way of exposing the small humiliations, private fantasies and enormous vanities that people spend their lives concealing. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:46:55 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Monster Was a Woman</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Gothic leaves us with that uncomfortable space between sympathy and fear. Its women linger there, neither innocent nor monstrous, but painfully human. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:13:40 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Seven Deadly Sins Reading List | Wrath</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Wrath can be inherited, provoked by confinement, born from obsession, hidden beneath good manners or turned against oneself. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:06:06 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Seven Deadly Sins Reading List | Greed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Greed does not emerge within humans as a loud antagonist. More often, it begins with a small justification, a quiet compromise, or the belief that one deserves just a little more than everyone else. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:23:48 +0600</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>Gatsby, Steinbeck, seven deadly sins</media:keywords>
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<title>Old Dhaka, New Story: The Architect Who Refuses to Build Walls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When the monsoon comes and two thirds of the land submerges, that is not devastation alone. The water withdraws and leaves behind a fine sediment of silt, and the landscape turns into vast patches of fertility, and then the wind comes and moves across it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:20:46 +0600</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>Dhaka, Shankha DasGupta, Rafiq Azam, Architecture</media:keywords>
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<title>Give a Dream Half an Hour</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The love is here. The love has always been here. What the love has lacked is doors, and the Legacy Match is one door, opened in front of an audience full of people who have the power to open more. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:31:06 +0600</pubDate>
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<media:keywords>Pelé, Maradona, Ballon d&#039;Or, Messi, World Cup</media:keywords>
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<title>An Evening with Calcutta Kebabs and Christmas Cake</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The Calcutta of this book was plural in the way that daily life is plural, messily, in the way that a grandmother bakes a Christmas cake for her Muslim neighbour&#039;s grandchildren because they are downstairs and they love cake. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:45:05 +0600</pubDate>
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<title>The Seven Deadly Sins Reading List | Pride</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Satan is the most psychologically precise portrait of pride in all of literature, and he is rendered in the most beautiful blank verse in the English language. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:21:32 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>seven deadly sins, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Milton, Paradise Lost</media:keywords>
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<title>The Faculty Bookshelf</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ He reads the protagonist’s journey, from the subcontinent across the sea to Canada, as a search for wholeness through displacement, danger, and reinvention. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 14:59:52 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Achebe, Kaiser Haq, postcolonial</media:keywords>
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<title>Where the Dead Come to Dinner</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ At its core, Nawaz is asking something very simple and very devastating: What do we owe the dead, and how much of ourselves must we sacrifice to pay that debt? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:56:27 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Partition, Liberation war, Shurjo&#039;s Clan</media:keywords>
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<title>Unlearning Obedience</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ We’re tired of being told to wait. We’re tired of being told to be reasonable. We’re tired of being told to consider the reputations of men, the stability of institutions, the sensitivities of cultures. We’re tired of the same headlines feeling like déjà vu. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:02:24 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Women&#039;s Day, Woolf, Plath, Morrison</media:keywords>
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<title>How Bangladesh Betrays Its Tea Garden Workers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Tea workers exist and spend their entire lives on lands that they do not and will not own, unable to build assets or escape the plantation system. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:10:58 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
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<title>Learning from Tehran: A Warning for Bangladesh’s Democratic Future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The decision for Bangladesh is simply this: Either we recognize what is happening to our degree of liberty now, or we will soon read about it in the pages of history books as if it is a novel about something that was simply unavoidable. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:34:28 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Propaganda, Radical, Repression</media:keywords>
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<title>&amp;apos;Partitions of India are the root of many great conflicts today&amp;apos;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint, Sam Dalrymple talks about his book Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia. He reflects on forgotten geographies and the near-misses of the past, and how hastily drawn borders still unsettle lives, loyalties and conflicts across South Asia and beyond. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:57:38 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Azeema Anhar Humaira</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Invasion Partition Congress</media:keywords>
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