This article was published in the Bhorer Kagoj on July 25, 2013.
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âEver since I was in first grade, I was teased by my classmates for my girlish behavior. Back then, I didnât even know I was gay; and being called gay was quite offending. I used to get teased, bullied and even took a few hits for my âinappropriateâ behavior. Continue reading “Bangladeshâs LGBT Community and the UPR 2013”
The right to express oneâs opinion freely is maybe the most important democratic right, and it is currently under assault in Bangladesh. Hifazat-e-Islam demands the introduction of strict blasphemy laws, and the government, instead of defending freedom, resorts to an ill-advised and imprudent appeasement strategy that hinders the press in its duty to inform the public, threatens the futures of young bloggers who were, and continue to be, arrested, and puts in peril the future of the democracy of the country. Continue reading “Blasphemy and the right to offend”
Background: The Guardian
If Mr. Mollah committed the crimes he was convicted for, and if anyone deserves to die, he does. It is hence not surprising that the death penalty is on everybodyâs lips in Bangladesh these days. However, we do not wish to comment on the case of Mr. Mollah, as we would hardly be in a position to do so. We leave this case to others more familiar with it and more competent than us. Instead, we will offer some thoughts on capital punishment in general, drawing from the debate about killing criminals in our respective home countries â South Africa and Germany.
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Amra Chhilam. Amra Achhi. Amra Thakbo.
What is sexual orientation?
Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. Sexual orientation ranges along a continuum, from exclusive attraction to the other sex to exclusive attraction to the same sex. However, sexual orientation is usually discussed in terms of three categories: heterosexual (having attractions to members of the other sex), gay/lesbian (men attracted to men/women attracted to women), and bisexual (men or women attracted to both sexes). Continue reading “What You Should Know About Homosexuality”
Am 13. Dezember berichtete die Ipf- und Jagst-Zeitung Ãŧber einen besonders grausamen Fall von Tierquälerei, der sich vor einigen Wochen in Adelmannsfelden ereignete. Einem jungen Kater wurden fÃŧnf Gummibänder so um den Kopf gespannt, dass er keine Nahrung mehr zu sich nehmen konnte. AuÃerdem wurde ihm ein fingerbreiter DÃŧbel in den Anus eingefÃŧhrt. GlÃŧcklicherweise wurde der Kater gefunden und konnte gerettet werden. BestÃŧrzt Ãŧber die Tat setzte ein Tierfreund einen Tag nachdem Ãŧber den Fall berichtet wurde eine Belohnung von 200 Euro fÃŧr Hinweise aus, die zur Ergreifung der unbekannten Täter (des Täters, der Täterin) fÃŧhren. Continue reading “Moralisch schizophren”
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The 14-minute trailer of the movie titled âInnocence of Muslims,â a movie that may or may not exist, is poorly made and outright stupid. Anyone of even modest intelligence, Muslim or not, will find it painful to watch. The trailer, produced by Egyptian-born U.S. resident Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, was initially uploaded to YouTube in July 2012. From that time until September it got the attention it deserves: none. Then, on September 8, Egyptian television host Khaled Abdallah reported on the film and showed excerpts of an Arabic version of the trailer. We all know what happened next. Continue reading “The YouTube ban and the right road to development”
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It was Shahanaâs first trip abroad. Shahana was a 10th-grader at an English medium school in Dhaka, and she was part of a student exchange program that had been jointly established by her school and a partner school in New York City. Every summer, a student from her school is selected and sent to the United States to spend four weeks with the family of a student at their partner school. In return, an American student then spends four weeks in Bangladesh in the following winter. Continue reading “Children like yours”
This interview was published in The Independent on September 9, 2012. Continue reading “About a dying vestige of British colonialism”
Background:Â The Daily Star
It has been reported by multiple news sources that, after a passenger alleged corruption, a man slapped railway employee Boloram Das in the face at Ishwardi Railway Station. That is brutish behaviour, for sure, and it deserves condemnation, but such an incident generally would hardly justify an opinion piece. The man, however, was Communications Minister Obaidul Quader. Continue reading “Quader must apologize”
Many of my Bangladeshi friends and relatives frenetically deny that their compatriots have sex before marriage. Amusingly, about as many unmarried friends in Bangladesh tell me that they are sexually active. I imagine that, partly due to the lack of comprehensive sex education in Bangladeshi schools, a non-negligible number of unmarried women conceive during their adolescent years. If, a few months ago, a friend in that situation had called me, and asked me whom she should talk to about her pregnancy, I would have advised her to talk to people of her age first. I would have argued that adolescents and young adults are more accepting of premarital sex, abortion and having a baby outside of marriage, and that she will more likely find support in her siblings or same-aged friends than in her parents. I would have been wrong. Continue reading “Young Bangladeshis more conservative than their elders, survey finds”
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University of Nairobiâs Reginald M. J. Oduor talks to Anteneh Roba and Rainer Ebert:
Q:Â Could you please introduce yourself and describe your academic career?
Dr. Oduor:Â I am a Kenyan, born in 1963 in Eldoret, a town in the Rift Valley. However, my ancestral home is Ugenya, a part of the former Nyanza Province, now part of Siaya County. As I had total visual disability from the age of one, I studied at the Thika School for the Blind up to O-level. I then undertook my A-level studies at Thika High School, a regular boysâ school, where we were only two boys with visual disabilities; yet, the two of us came out top in a class of ninety-five boys. Continue reading “Interview: African Philosophy, and non-human animals”


