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Context: children and smartphones

I captured both of these photos this year. The one on the left was taken in July from a Rohingya camp in Teknaf Upazila, Cox's Bazar . The other photograph was taken in September in Dhaka 's Segunbagicha area. The latest generation of smartphones is taking over childhood everywhere. How safe or scary are these images? Please share your thoughts.

Flashback: Call of the Red-Rooster

Press show In August 2015, I joined "Laal Moroger Jhuti" (Call of the Red-Rooster) as a film worker. Our first team meeting was in the Dhaka residence of the filmmaker couple, Nurul Alam Atique-Matia Banu Shuku, also the writer-director and producer of the film. Then I started on a long voyage with this film and we visited different areas of Dhaka, Kushtia, Syedpur, Dinajpur, Thakurgaon. Later, the film's production came to a halt, and in my reality, I was unable to maintain a steady connection with the work. Yet, I tried to engage with the film in various ways and noticed more about the film's behind-the-scenes. Family show In his statement at the first meeting, Atique Bhai said that in the current context, his production team needs to carry out a "liberation fight of Bengali cinema" to complete the production of this government-funded film. After that battle, when I sat in the auditorium of the Bangladesh Film Archive in December 2021, watching the film...

Is this panic just mine?

With my child, March 2022 "Today, the people of Bengal want freedom. The people of Bengal want to live. The people of Bengal want to have their rights," the father of our nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , said in his historic speech on March 7, 1971. Despite a half-century of liberty, farmers continue to commit suicide due to a shortage of irrigation water. Until now, the helpless father has refused to seek justice for his child's death at the hands of political thugs. So, even on our country's 51st birthday, I'm terrified. In this state, how safe would my child be? Another Rajshahi farmer dies after suicide bid ‘for irrigation water’ Irrigation water: Back against wall, Santal farmer dies by suicide ‘There’s no justice here’ -Father of slain college girl says he won’t file case " Hindus , Muslims , Bengalis and non-Bengalis, all those who live in this Bangla are our brothers. The responsibility of protecting them is on you. Ensure that our reput...