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One year ago, Sheikh Hasina scored a landslide election victory in Bangladesh. She thus gained unprecedented power through democratic mandate. But according to a recent survey, people have less confidence in the government than they did in January. By Ridwanul Hoque
'Making the Museum Reinhard Ernst' at Aedes Architecture Forum offers visitors a closer look at the building's design & construction process.
The book "Poems from Guantanamo" is a phenomenon: out of thousands of poems written by the detainees, 22 made it past the US censors. Now it's clear that the Islamists have also arrived on the Modernist poetry scene. By Stefan Weidner
Cruel Logic of Exploitation The documentary "Iron Eaters" presents the tough reality of the ship-breaking industry in Bangladesh. Sonja Ernst had a look at Shaheen Dill-Riaz's award-winning film When work is an ordeal, stoicism is the only answer: a ship-breaking industry peon in a scene from Shaheen Dill-Riaz's "Iron Eaters" The leviathans of the seas rise majestically from the sand of a beach in the south of Bangladesh. Old oil tankers and container ships await their slaughter – the unwanted waste of the "First World". In the cutaway wrecks echo the deafening sound of hammers and t...