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RELIVING HISTORY WITH TARIQ ALI
Coming to Bangladesh, for Tareq Ali, is to relive one of the most incendiary moments in history. A university student from West Pakistan, he became a strong voice for East Pakistan, advocating the idea of independence during the political movements of 1969 and 1970. Born in Lahore 1943, in undivided India, to leftist parents -journalist Mazhar Ali Khan and activist Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan Tariq Ali - it was natural that he would become quite the firebrand whether at home or abroad. A British Pakistani writer, journalist, and filmmaker Ali has authored several books, including “Pakistan: Military Rule or People's Power” (1970). He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and regularly contributes to The Guardian, Counter Punch, and the London Review of Books.
Elita Karim
Tareq Ali recently visited Dhaka to attend this year’s Hay Festival. “I do not go to the Hay festivals in England,” he says. “I don’t like them. I only came here because it’s Dhaka and I have come after a…