Interview in English

Bangladeshi literature has historically been insulated from the world, floundering, thriving, and existing in a cocoon of its own making.…

While there has been an increase in extremism in Bangladesh, I believe this is not because the general public is…

Part 2 Why divide this interview in half? Although I retained the chronology of the interview, and there is much…

Saleem Samad is an award-winning investigative reporter and recognised as an Ashoka Fellow (USA) for agenda setting journalism in 1991…

Parvathy Baul (b. 1976) is an accomplished singer, teacher, instrumentalist, and practitioner in the Baul tradition of Bengal (India…

Helge Lunde (1961) has been a longtime advocate for freedom of expression. He was the director of Kapittel, Stavanger International…

We received the English version of Satanic Verses in the fall of 1988, even before the demonstrations in Bradford took…

I think I said it already when I pointed at the need to qualify in political terms and not in…

ICORN is an organization that provides residencies for writers and artists who can no longer express themselves freely in the countries where…