
THE IMPORTANCE OF A LIT FEST IN DHAKA
by Kenan Malik
I am speaking next week at the Dhaka Lit Fest, something I am particularly looking forward to. In a place like Bangladesh, more known in the West for poverty and terror, a literary festival might seem a luxury, a bauble for the rich and cosmopolitan. It is anything but. It is precisely in a country like Bangladesh that such an event becomes so important. Between 2013 and 2016, a series of horrific murders of freethinking and atheist bloggers by Islamists shocked […]
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