She held an open conversation organised by Chobi Mela with photographer Shahidul Alam at the Midas Centre in Dhanmondi on Tuesday. “When I came to Bangladesh (in) ‘84 I realised that the independent Bangladesh, sovereign Bangladesh that I lived was in the hands of a military general. “Basically all the institutions that are meant to be made of democracy have been violated, penetrated, overturned in some ways,” Arundhati replied. “And democracy in our part of the world has been reduced to mean election. Shahidul, while asking Arundhati about democracy, referred to his jailing in Bangladesh and Arundhati’s in India.

Source: bd News24 March 05, 2019 21:22 UTC