Shuddhashar

Shuddhashar (শুদ্ধস্বর) was established in 1990 at the advent of the little magazine movement in Bangladesh as an independent magazine and periodical of anti-establishment writing, working towards a broader socio-cultural movement.

Interview with Esther Brito and Henrik Kjellmo Larsen

By / Podcast / 1 minute of reading

In this special episode of the Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we focus on the theme of our November 2022 issue, Cultural Genocide. Joined by contributors Esther Brito and Henrik Kjellmo Larsen, PhD researchers at the American University School of International Service and Monash University in Australia, respectively, we attempt to deconstruct and walk through the evolution …

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Freedom to Publish Day

By / Statement / 5 minutes of reading

Publication houses play an vital role in sponsoring and promoting writers and thought-provoking work in a marketplace of ideas. Shuddhashar proposes we recognize this by making 31 October Freedom to Publish Day. Shuddhashar was established in 1990 at a critical juncture in Bangladesh’s history. The early 1990s was a period marked by revolutionary upheavals. A …

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Avijit-Ananta Mentorship Programme for writers (September-December 2022)

By / Notice / 4 minutes of reading

Since its inception, Shuddhashar has remained committed to giving marginalised voices a platform. Over three decades, we have had the privilege of publishing works of writers, poets, and artists who represent communities that live on the margins, who are denied rights by the dominant majority, and whose voices are silenced by governments and mainstream media …

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Is History Repeating Itself? The Russo-Ukrainian War, the Russo-Georgian War, and Eurasia’s Path Forward

By / Issue 30, Undocumented, Magazine / 26 minutes of reading

As the stories about horrors in Ukraine grip international headlines, too much attention is focused on troop movement and scenes of military might, but not enough attention is paid to the internally displaced people and the humanitarian situation on the ground. I had seen Ms. Tinatin Japaridze, VP of Business Development for Critical Mass, give …

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A Decade Later, Another Deadly Attack on Progressives in Norway

By / Statement / 2 minutes of reading

We are deeply outraged by the Oslo mass shooting, which has left two people dead and many injured. The fact that a bar popular with the LGBT+ community was targeted suggests that it was a hate crime. Local police authorities are treating the incident as an Islamist terrorist attack. This is not the first time …

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Ananta Bijoy’s Murderers Are Found Guilty, and Shuddhashar Pledges to Keep His Dreams Alive

By / Statement / 3 minutes of reading

Between 2013 and 2016, numerous secular writers, religious minorities, and activists in Bangladesh were hacked to death by radical Islamists. This was a deliberate and coordinated onslaught on freethinking and free speech in Bangladesh. That particularly gruesome violent stage seems to have quietened, but the chilling effects persist through censorship and fear and an oppressive …

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Episode: 21 | Interview with Ramon Lee

By / Podcast / 1 minute of reading

Ramon Lee, a passionate activist, poet, and community organizer, joins the Shuddhashar Free-Thought Podcast in this episode to provide some great insights into his political poetry and experiences with spoken word poetry. Ramon also delves into racial politics, the current political atmosphere in the United States, and the value and significance of poetry for African …

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Stop Putin! Stop War!

By / Statement / 4 minutes of reading

Shuddhashar stands in solidarity with the Ukrainians as we watch with horror the Russian invasion of their country. With this destructive and entirely unprovoked assault, Russia is aggressively seeking to destroy Ukrainian’s democratically elected government and the people’s own rights to independence and human dignity. Further, such flagrant violation of the territorial integrity of a …

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