An adaptation of Lajja was staged at Delhi’s Bipin Chandra Pal Auditorium in Delhi on 17 November. It showed how Nasrin’s 1993 novel—still banned in Bangladesh—is still relevant today.
The currency dropped as much as 0.7% to 93.28 per dollar, after a public holiday Thursday. The central bank has been intervening to support the currency, with traders citing its presence Friday.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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