Sarah Nafisa Shahid

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Sarah Nafisa Shahid is a freelance writer. She wrote about film, visual culture, and politics for the Star Weekend, a publication of The Daily Star in Dhaka. Her writings have also appeared in the Hyperallergic and Wear Your Voice magazines.

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Can Sculptures Speak? Understanding Dhaka’s Public Art and Its Effect on Collective Memory in Bangla

“Memory takes root in the concrete, in spaces, gestures, images, and objects; history binds itself strictly to temporal continuities, to progressions and to relations between things.” — Pierre Nora, Between History and Memory: Les Lieux de Mémoire In May of 2017, the statue of a saree-clad, blind-folded, Lady Justice was pulled down from the Supreme Court premises and moved to an annex building due to pressure from far-right religious group, Hefazat-e-Islam.

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