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On a Friday evening in July of this year, a group of Bangladeshi terrorists stormed ... When news of the July attack broke, the novelist Tahmima Anam, who was born in Dhaka but has lived in ...
Even so, I will say the poverty-stricken, powerless women of Bangladesh are often forced to wed aged, married, mentally or physically handicapped, infertile men just so they can survive. The women in ...
But at a price. By Tahmima Anam Bangladeshis ponder whether being well-versed in religion is protection from a terrorist attack. By Tahmima Anam A terrorist attack on a café has struck a blow ...
First we have feted novelist Amitav Ghosh from West Bengal and now Tahmima Anam from East ... Satyajit Ray and Tareque Masud). Anam sets her second novel in Bangladesh during the 1970s and 1980s ...
Tahmima Anam's new book, The Good Muslim, showcases a time well before the Arab Spring, in the aftermath of Bangladesh's war of independence. And the family at the center of her novel struggles ...
Tahmima Anam is a British Bangladeshi writer. Her Bengal trilogy follows the fortunes of three generations of a family from the Bangladesh independence war to the present. That trilogy established ...
"I'm particularly proud to be representing my country as the first regional winner from Bangladesh," said Tahmima, daughter of The Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam. Every year, the Commonwealth ...
In The Bones of Grace, Bangladeshi writer Tahmima Anam has, like Herman Melville before her, adopted the quest for a whale as the symbolic centre of a novel. Her protagonist, Zubaida, is a marine ...
Tahmima Anam, the London-based writer of Bangladeshi origin, has completed her “Bangladesh trilogy” with the hauntingly beautiful The Bones of Grace. t2 had a quick chat with her over the ...
That's the question Tahmima Anam set out to answer in the satirical ... that was the most meaningful was when we moved back to Bangladesh. ... We were living in all these countries and [my parents ...
In "A Golden Age,"Tahmima Anam chronicled Bangladesh's 1971 war for independence through the story of Rehana Haque, a widow drawn into the rebellion by her devotion to her teenage children.