Yearly Archives: 2011

    Weekend Independent | Friday, 17 December 2010 |  Rubaiyat Hossain   Belief in Bengal The starting point and the very historical processes of mass “conversion” to “Islam,” in South Asia has long been contested and politicized. For instance, the … Continue reading →

Volume 2 Issue 5 | June 2007   Feminism for men It is not just women who benefit from feminism, but men as well, argues Rubaiyat Hossain Nobody can possibly disagree that in order to make the world a better place … Continue reading →

Volume 2 Issue 4 | May 2007   Bad girls and middle-class morality Rubaiyat Hossain shines a spot-light on the disturbing constructions of Bangladeshi womanhood to be found in the novels of Humayun Ahmed We do not grow up in a … Continue reading →

Volume 2 Issue 2 | February 2007  The women in his life Rubaiyat Hossain discusses Rabindranath’s willingness to subordinate to the cause of nationalism his liberal humanism when it came to the issue of women’s emancipation Madhurilata got married on the … Continue reading →

Volume 2 Issue 1 | January 2007   Why did Durga, Sarbajaya, and Aparna have to die Rubaiyat Hossain ponders the disquieting dispensability of the female characters in the Apu Trilogy  The coming of modernity in South Asia is marked by … Continue reading →