Dear Readers,Himal Southasian is pleased to announce the launch of its third quarterly of 2015, ‘The Bangladesh Paradox‘ (Vol 28 No 3). Despite spurts of interest, Bangladesh does not get the attention warranted by a country of its size, complexity and relevance. This is true of the media coverage within and beyond Southasia, which seems to be a part of a larger pattern that undermines the Bangladeshi story. Southasia’s youngest nation deserves greater attention. ‘The Bangladesh Paradox’ looks at battles over freedom of expression, the self-identification of minority communities, workers’ struggles on the factory floors, the country’s fraught relationship with Hindi and Urdu cinema and other questions.
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The issue features Salil Tripathi on free speech in Bangladesh; Prashanta Tripura on the denial of rights of indigenous peoples; Lotte Hoek on the politics of Bollywood screening in Bangladesh’s cinema halls; Colin Longon labour and unionism; and Khademul Islam on English-language literary magazines, among others.We also carry a photo essay by Md Akhlas Uddin on the Kaibarta fishing community, book reviews by Vijay Prashad on Jeremy Seabrook’s The Song of the Shirt and Garga Chatterjeeon Garry J. Bass’s The Blood Telegram,and new LGBT writing from Nepal.

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