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মুক্তাঙ্গন-এ উপরোক্ত শিরোনামের নিয়মিত এই সিরিজটিতে থাকছে দেশী বিদেশী পত্রপত্রিকা, ব্লগ ও গবেষণাপত্র থেকে পাঠক সুপারিশকৃত ওয়েবলিন্কের তালিকা। কী ধরণের বিষয়বস্তুর উপর লিন্ক সুপারিশ করা যাবে তার কোনো নির্দিষ্ট নিয়ম, মানদণ্ড বা সময়কাল নেই। পুরো ইন্টারনেট থেকে যা কিছু গুরত্বপূর্ণ, জরুরি, মজার বা আগ্রহোদ্দীপক মনে করবেন পাঠকরা, তা-ই তাঁরা মন্তব্য আকারে উল্লেখ করতে পারেন এখানে।
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এখানে থাকছে দেশী বিদেশী পত্রপত্রিকা, ব্লগ ও গবেষণাপত্র থেকে পাঠক সুপারিশকৃত ওয়েবলিন্কের তালিকা। পুরো ইন্টারনেট থেকে যা কিছু গুরত্বপূর্ণ, জরুরি, মজার বা আগ্রহোদ্দীপক মনে করবেন পাঠকরা, তা-ই সুপারিশ করুন এখানে। ধন্যবাদ।

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  1. মাসুদ করিম - ৪ অক্টোবর ২০২০ (৮:১৪ পূর্বাহ্ণ)

    Russian editor dies after setting herself on fire

    A Russian news editor has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod.

    Irina Slavina earlier wrote on Facebook: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.”

    Authorities confirmed her body had been found with severe burns.

    Slavina said on Thursday police had searched her flat looking for materials related to the pro-democracy group Open Russia. Computers and data were seized.

    Footage has emerged apparently showing the moment she set herself on fire on a bench in Gorky Street, where the interior ministry in Nizhny Novgorod is situated.

    In the video, a man is seen running to a woman to help extinguish the flames. She repeatedly pushes him back as he tries to use his coat to stop the fire, before she eventually falls to the ground.

    Russia’s Investigative Committee confirmed that Irina Slavina, who leaves behind a husband and daughter, had died but denied any connection to a search of the journalist’s flat.

    Irina Slavina was editor-in-chief of the small Koza Press news website. Its motto is “news and analytics” and “no censorship”. Its website went down on Friday, as news of her death was confirmed.

    She was one of seven people in Nizhny Novgorod whose homes were searched on Thursday, apparently as part of an inquiry into Open Russia.

    Last year, she was fined for “disrespecting authorities” in one of her articles.

    “This news was a real blow for me, I knew her,” said Natalia Gryaznevich, an aide to exiled Open Russia founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky. “I know she was harassed, detained, fined all the time. She was a very active woman,” she told BBC Moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

    In a Facebook post on Thursday, she said 12 people had forced their way into her family’s flat and seized flash drives, her laptop and her daughter’s laptop as well as phones belonging to both her and her husband.

    The investigative committee insisted that Slavina was only a witness in their case – “and neither a suspect, nor accused, in the investigation of the criminal case”, a spokesperson told Ria Novosti.

    That criminal case appears to focus on a local businessman who allowed various opposition groups to use his spoof church for forums and other activities including training election monitors. Mikhail Iosilevich created the so-called Flying Spaghetti Monster church in 2016 whose followers were dubbed Pastafarians.

    Ms Gryaznevich told the BBC that Open Russia had taken part in a “Free People” forum in April 2019 in Nizhny Novgorod which Irina Slavinia had attended as a journalist. Neither the man being investigated nor Slavina herself were part of Open Russia, she stressed.

    She said the journalist had been fined 5,000 roubles (£50) because of her coverage of the event. The authorities had decided that the event she covered was connected to an “undesirable organisation”, according to Ms Gryaznevich.

    A swathe of tougher media and internet laws have recently come into force in Russia amid concern they may be used by the government to silence its critics.

    The Kremlin said at the time the legislation was needed to improve cyber security.

  2. মাসুদ করিম - ৬ অক্টোবর ২০২০ (১১:৪১ পূর্বাহ্ণ)

    নোবেল ২০২০

  3. মাসুদ করিম - ১৯ অক্টোবর ২০২০ (১:৩১ অপরাহ্ণ)

    Berula canal being filled up for construction of four-lane

    Century-old Berula canal in Cumilla is being filled up for construction of the four-lane on the Cumilla-Noakhali highway.

    Extending over an area of 60 kilometres in length, the canal starts from Fatehpur village of Laksham upazila of Cumilla and runs upto Chaumuhani of Noakhali.

    The canal had long been being filled up slowly for so long with construction of shops and houses in various parts of its banks. But its complete fill-up with soil has begun with construction of the Cumilla-Noakhali regional highway four-lane recently.

    According to locals, most of the canal in the area has been filled to widen the four-lane road. Again somewhere the canal has turned into a narrow drain.

    However, the canal has been filled entirely at Batabaria and Bhatiavita in the south part of Laksham municipality. As a result, the drain outlet of the area has been blocked, resulting in irrigation crisis for farmland. Natural fish sources will also be at stake.

    Consequently, 3,000 acres of agricultural land in Laksham, Manoharganj and Nangalkot of Cumilla district and Sonaimuri and Begumganj upazilas of Noakhali district will face irrigation crisis.

    Local sources said this canal was once used to transport goods from Noakhali to Laksham Daulatganj Bazar by boat.

    Vessel movement on the canal was closed due to encroachment and construction of unplanned bridges over it.

    Local fishermen once used to run their families by fishing in the canal which has now turned into a drain-like narrow channel for want of excavation.

    As the whole canal is now being filled to construct the four-lane road, farmers are worried whether they could produce crops in their land next year.

    The canal is connected to Laksham, Manoharganj and Nangalkot of Cumilla and Sonaimuri and Begumganj of Noakhali and various branch canals.

    If Berula canal is filled up, different areas of these upazilas will be affected by severe water-logging.

    Mostafizur Rahman, former chairman of Khila union in Manoharganj Upazila, said the canal was renovated in 1978 through voluntary work. The canal was used to bring goods from Noakhali to Laksham’s Daulatganj market by boat.

    Once the canal is filled, the people of this region will become victim of water logging.

    Agricultural land will fall into irrigation crisis. This will increase suffering of the people.

    Laksham Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) AKM Saiful Alam said, “As far as I know, the canal is owned by the Roads and Highways Department. They are filling the canal for constructing four-lane road. So I have no scope to say anything about this.”

    Mizanur Rahman, executive engineer of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC Irrigation), Cumilla, said there is no alternative to the flowing canal to save agriculture. We will look into the matter.”

    Bangladesh Environment Movement (BAPA) Cumilla president Dr Mosleh Uddin Ahmed said it was illegal to fill the canal. Rivers and canals must be protected to save the environment, nature and agriculture.

    Cumilla Deputy Commissioner Abul Fazal Mir said, “I don’t know about filling up the canal. However, I will take necessary steps in this regard.”

    Roads and Highways Department Cumilla Executive Engineer Dr Mohammad Ahad Ullah said, “I will see the matter. However, if it is necessary for the road, the canal has to be filled.”

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  4. মাসুদ করিম - ২৯ অক্টোবর ২০২০ (২:১৮ অপরাহ্ণ)

    Masood Hussain is painting the grief and anger of the Kashmiri people

    On the afternoon of 4 August 2019, eminent Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain was driving back to his home in Srinagar’s Rajbagh area. He had just visited a small plot he had purchased recently in Harwan, 23km away, to establish an art residency for Kashmiri artists—a site where they could meet and collaborate with one another as well as visiting artists.

    It’s normally a half-hour drive. That day, there was so much traffic it took him about 4 hours. He saw panicked, anxious faces on the streets, people rushing to the nearest petrol pumps and shops to stock up on fuel and essentials amid rumours and speculation of impending war.

    The next day, the Union government effectively revoked Article 370 of the Constitution and Jammu and Kashmir’s special status. As a military clampdown began, the 66-year-old artist was largely confined to his home, a state that continued for months. With a communication blackout, he was out of touch with friends for over two months, till his landline phone started ringing again one day.

    “I knew something bad was going to happen,” says the soft-spoken Hussain, sitting in the guest room of his newly constructed home, its walls adorned with paintings made by his daughter, an upcoming artist. Although he was cut off from fellow artists and the outside world, Hussain didn’t stop making art. He was already working on a series of paintings he had named Vitasta (the Sanskrit name for the Jhelum river)—a silent witness to events in Kashmir.

    In the weeks following 5 August, as phone lines were snapped and the internet was indefinitely shut down, he decided to end this series of paintings with a work that captured the despair of the time. It showed, in silhouette, former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Sheikh Abdullah, who was later incarcerated by Nehru, camouflaged in saffron—engaged in a silent conversation with each other. A small herd of sheep, barely visible, can be seen beneath the two leaders, somewhere in the middle of the canvas. “We have always been treated like a herd of cattle,” Hussain says pithily, looking at the painting.

    A mixed-media work he did after the 5 August lockdown shows darkened hands reaching out towards the sun, seeking help. Monkeys and wolves, with crowns on their heads, lord over them—a scathing commentary on the political situation in the region. Artists don’t usually indulge in politics, Hussain says, but artists also live among people and observe what’s happening in society. “My job as an artist,” he adds, “is to reflect it in my work.”

    During last year’s lockdown, Hussain also made a series of watercolours for an illustrated book, Walk With Gandhi, paired with haikus by Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock and with a foreword by historian Ramachandra Guha. Portraying a “dazzling kaleidoscope of events, real and imagined, in the life of Gandhi”, the book was released last October to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma. Since internet and mobile networks were still down in Kashmir at the time, Hussain did not know about the progress of the book for several months. He saw a copy of it much later.

    Steeped in the community

    Hussain’s father, a physician, wanted him to become a doctor. But Hussain was far more interested in doodling. He would copy the anatomical sketches in his father’s medical books that caught his attention. As he grew up, he began painting on canvas before he went in for formal training in the arts.

    In 1971, Hussain went to Mumbai to study fine arts at the Sir JJ Institute of Applied Arts. After graduating, he worked in the city for six years. In 1977, he returned to the valley to start teaching at the Institute of Music and Fine Arts, University of Kashmir, where he also helped establish a department of applied art, teaching fine arts to hundreds of students and upcoming artists until his retirement in 2011.

    Over the past decades, Hussain has worked with different media, making a series of relief works and paintings which have been exhibited in art galleries across India and the world. Grounded in the social milieu of Kashmir, his work in mixed media, watercolour and sculpture evokes the many hues of life in the valley.

    The late Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali, a friend and an ardent admirer of Hussain’s art, once chose one of his paintings, A Peep Out Of The Past, for the cover of one of the many editions of his critically acclaimed poetry collection, The Country Without A Post Office. Shahid later wrote that everyone seemed to agree it was perhaps “the most beautiful looking volume of poems in years”. “Such lonely work, done so bravely, and steeped in the community so beautifully and demandingly!” he added. “In Masood’s work, the political exists only by inhabiting the mystical.”

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