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Sushmita S Preetha

@ss_preetha

Activist, journalist and researcher. Editor, Star Weekend Magazine, The Daily Star. I focus on human rights, labour, neoliberalism, feminism and politics.

 Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Joined June 2012
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@tribunemagazine11 May 2021
The media continues to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal participants in a conflict, but events in Sheikh Jarrah expose the reality – what we're seeing is a battle between coloniser and colonised. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/05/the…
The Violence in Palestine Isn’t ‘Clashes’ – It’s Colonialism

The Violence in Palestine Isn’t ‘Clashes’ – It’s Colonialism

The media continues to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal participants in a conflict, but events in Sheikh Jarrah expose the reality – what we're seeing is a battle between coloniser and...

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Maybe, just maybe, rather than advocating for "crossfire" of rapists, we prohibit the outdated, offensive and utterly disgusting use of "character evidence" in rape cases? thedailystar.net/frontpage/n…
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Read @AnnuJal in our partition special: States of being divided nitter.gq/TheStarWeekend/status/…
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Who is a Bengali? The British legacy left Bengal in tatters culturally. By @annujal bit.ly/2jki4rB
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You embarrass yourself, Home Minister, and make a mockery of those who died. @bloggers #FoER
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Home Minister of Bangladesh Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said “Yesterday’s attacks are isolated incidents” @dailystarnews.
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"I don't want justice for my son's death. In this country, justice is not meted out in the courts... It's all political," blogger's father
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Rezwan@rezwan31 Oct 2015
Update: bloggers under attack in Bangladesh-Tutul &Ranadipam stable now. Praying for Tareq. See blood related info
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Another publisher, Faisal Arefin, stabbed to death. Earlier, Avijit's publisher and two other #bloggers were also stabbed
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Edward Snowden
@Snowden11 Oct 2015
Claim: NSA mass surveillance keeps us safe. Fact: In over 10 years, not 1 life saved in US. washingtonpost.com/world/nat…
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TheHub.News@karenhunter11 Oct 2015
Interesting that we never hear from the so-called pro-life folks when a real child is killed #TamirRice:... fb.me/4WMPuloI2
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Verso Books@VersoBooks9 Oct 2015
Colonial Violence & Mental Disorders: an extract from Frantz Fanon's 'Wretched of the Earth' versobooks.com/blogs/2274-co…
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@feminarkist SHUT UP IT'S HARD WORK. This devil doesn't even wear Prada.
Draft law proposes that government officials can't be arrested without special permission #OnlyinBangladesh ittefaq.com.bd/national/2015…
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Three years after the communal violence at #Ramu -- promises made and promises broken. My latest column: thedailystar.net/op-ed/polit…
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Attempting, once again, to be active on Twitter. Apparently, it's the only way to stay relevant.
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That awkward moment when you realise that maybe you're a structuralist after all. Mmm, bummer.
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Rest in power! Postcolonial lit would never have been the same without you. gu.com/p/3ejen/tw via @guardian
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