TO IMAGINE, TO HOPE, TO TRANSCEND, TO TRANSFORM
by Kenan Malik
This essay, on the Dhaka Lit Fest, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on a new survey of English dialects.) It was published on 20 October 2019, under the headline ‘Literary festivals are not a luxury, a bauble for the middle classes’. Sadarghat is not a place for the faint-hearted. The river port of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, it’s a microcosm of the city itself – in your face, bursting with life, tumultuous […]
Categories: Culture & Books, International, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: bangladesh, bangladesh war of liberation, daniel baremboim, dhaka, dhaka lit fest, freedom struggles, gaza, kazi anis ahmed, louis kahn
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