Roy’s film, Songs of Forgotten Trees, is about two women, a call centre employee and a sex worker, who share an apartment in Mumbai and slowly fall for each other.
Several groups, including political parties and CPI(M)-affiliated writers and artists body, had urged Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation, the organiser, to call off the event.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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