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		<title>Jamaat’s farce unravels</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[rahnuma ahmed
A national convention of freedom fighters organised by supporters and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir. An outright appropriation. The only problem is, Mohammad Ali saw through it. A single glance told him the truth. And, as Jamaat’s pack of cards came crashing down, the reaction was instant. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quitting Is Leading Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only our own leaders (past and present), Mugabe, Bush and a host of others could learn! At the silver jubilee celebrations of Bangladesh&#8217;s independence, Madiba had set an example. He had called out to Khaleda (then the leader of the opposition) from the stage. An act of respect and reconciliation none of our leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paradise Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had been a hectic month. An assignment in Sri Lanka, followed by the World Press Photo award ceremony in Amsterdam and Martin Parr&#8217;s Sam Presser lecture. It had been many years since Martin had slept in our flat in Lalmatia, with his feet sticking out of the Bangla sized cane bed. Abir Abdullah a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Roses and Sexual Harassment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by rahnuma ahmed
`You should not have written about such sensitive issues in such indecorous language,&#8217; faculty members at Jahangirnagar University (JU) told me and my ex-colleague, Manosh Chowdhury. It was 1997, four years before I left JU to become a writer.
We had written about the Provost of a Women&#8217;s Hall of Residence. He would target [...]]]></description>
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