Unlike treaties, textiles ask for no formal alignment. They create intimacy without negotiation.
About The Author
Faisal Mahmud is a Dhaka-based journalist. He was the former Minister (press) of Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi
The article argues that Rabindranath Tagore became politically weaponised in Bangladesh under the Awami League government led by Sheikh Hasina. Tagore’s poetry, music and cultural symbolism were projected as markers of “proper” Bengali identity and secular nationalism, turning admiration for him into an ideological test
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