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Let’s keep filming and fighting Rubaiyat Hossain ———————————- Facts about our films: * The first motion picture was projected in Bangladesh on April 4, 1898 in Bhola. * The first cinema theatre in Bangladesh was called Picture House, located in … Continue reading →

Volume 5 Issue 12| December 2011 Taking Women Forward: The Role of Begum Rokeya and Sultan Jahan RUBAIYAT HOSSAIN examines the lives, works and social influence of Begum Rokeya and Sultan Jahan Begum of Bhopal. The sudden reformist zeal of the 20th century South Asian … Continue reading →

Volume 5 Issue 07 | July 2011   Khwaja Gul-e-Nur and Luce Irigary: Can the ‘Woman’ be a Subject without Cultural Specificity? Rubaiyat Hossain Divinity is what we need to become free, autonomous, sovereign. No human subjectivity, no human society … Continue reading →

Volume 5 Issue 6 | June 2011   Sylvia Plath (1932-1963): Stars open among the lilies . . . RUBAIYAT HOSSAIN delves into the love, loss and life of an extraordinary poet. Sylvia Plath, who has been called the Marilyn Monroe … Continue reading →

Volume 5 Issue 5 | July 2011   Female Directors, Female Gaze: The Search for Female Subjectivity in Film RUBAIYAT HOSSAIN takes an incisive look into women, femininity and sexuality in film. “A woman’s vocabulary exists, linked to the feminine universe. … Continue reading →