Ahmedur Chowdhury

Ahmedur Chowdhury, known as Tutul, is a publisher, writer, and editor from Bangladesh.

Looking back over the three decades of Shuddhashar

Shuddhashar has entered its third decade this year. The journey has neither been smooth nor planned out in detail. The story began in December 1990 with a youthful passion for poetry and literature that soon grew into an aspiration to influence the broader culture and society. The hope was to bring about a change in …

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A publisher’s disclaimer about LGBTIQ+ solidarity

In the early days of Shuddhashar, there was excitement around new ideas, different ways of looking at the world, and information that challenged our societal assumptions. Day by day, our mentality shifted because we were opening up.   Some subjects are very difficult to write about. There are so many scattered events, contexts, and emotions …

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Bangladesh and the crisis of freedom of speech

Bangladesh and the crisis of freedom of speech

Bangladesh is a small nation in South Asia, gaining independence in 1971. After 24 years of existence under the religious defined Pakistan, created at the end of the British Raj, Bangladesh was born based on a nationalism centred on language. The aspirations of economic, political and intellectual emancipation accelerated and organised the country’s birth. All …

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Maruf Rosul | Movement: Epoch Making Footsteps

In 2013, Spring arrived a few days early in Bangladesh, and its advent was a raging bloom. On February 5, Bangladeshi bloggers and online activists fleetly occupied the Shahbag intersection, to protest against the mild sentence of life-imprisonment awarded to atrocious war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah, assistant secretary-general of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islam party, who committed heinous …

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