‘We lay like corpses’: Bangladesh’s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out
Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independence
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Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country’s war of independence
Read moreThe right to live offline, to self-define, to choose, to a healthy planet … as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70, leading authors reimagine it for today
Read moreA story about two families in Sheffield – one white English; the other from Bangladesh – meanders through the decades
Read moreMore than a million were killed and many millions more displaced by Indian partition. Authors consider its bloody legacy and the crises now facing their countries
Read moreRaju Vaidyanathan’s photographs of east London’s famous street market area in the 80s capture how much it has changed
Read moreLuxurious offers from international events are tempting – but as authors and campaigners explain, they come with heavy ethical baggage
Read moreShe’s about to star as the heroine of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but post-Potter she has received more plaudits for her activism than her acting
Read moreThis warm-hearted family saga from the Great British Bake Off star will surely sell like hot cakes – but I wish celebrities wouldn’t dominate the bookshelves
Read morePeter Frase’s roaming, thoughtful work of ‘social science fiction’ sketches out a frightening future of rich v poor
Read moreThe 1913 Nobel prize for literature was awarded to the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. His work, like Dylan’s, recreates tradition and crosses genres
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