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Protecting the Bauls means reaffirming the monotheistic conviction that no single clerical authority, political power, or militant faction can embody the oneness of the divine. Read Siddhartha Dhar's take on the recent eruption of violence against Bangladeshi Bauls.

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Monotheism, Certainty, and Baul Persecution in Bangladesh - শুদ্ধস্বর
Islamists in Bangladesh have increased their attacks against Bauls and Sufis while the interim government stands by passively. We need to re-examine our concepts of tolerance and monotheism.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Shuddhashar demands that Baul Abul Sarkar be released immediately. Blasphemy laws must be repealed. And political parties—and society at large—must commit to building a tolerant Bangladesh where all people can live safely.
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two award-winning writers: Camelia Dewan and Taran Khan. Camelia Dewan is an environmental anthropologist, and Taran Khan is a journalist and award-winning nonfiction writer.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Music itself is a journey — one that carries uprooted Afghan musicians like Ghawgha through unexpected paths and turns.
Read her story in our latest issue.
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“The Songs of Birds Whose Names I Knew”: Listening and Singing in Exile - শুদ্ধস্বর
Music itself is a journey — one that carries uprooted Afghan musicians like Ghawgha through unexpected paths and turns.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Intergenerational listening is developed as a practice of rerouting in exile. It’s how families and communities build a sense of continuity when geography has been broken. Mejgan Massoumi shares her Afghan experience in our latest issue.
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Sonic Tapestries: Music, Memory, and the Making of Home in Exile - শুদ্ধস্বর
Intergenerational listening is developed as a practice of rerouting in exile. It’s how families and communities build a sense of continuity when geography has been broken.
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November 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Being far from home has taught Afghans that they can preserve their stories and culture through social media. Heela Kakar shares her story in our latest issue.
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At Home on the Internet - শুদ্ধস্বর
Being far from home has taught Afghans that they can keep their stories and culture alive on social media, creating a new space for connection and sharing.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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In a passionate plea, award-winning filmmaker and photographer Mohammad Ali Sheida makes the case for why Afghanistan doesn’t need visitors who come solely for spectacle, why it needs allies, why it doesn’t need filtered reels or applause, and why it needs memory.
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Afghanistan is Not a Backdrop - শুদ্ধস্বর
Afghanistan doesn’t need visitors looking for a spectacle or to be portrayed through filtered reels. It needs not to be forgotten.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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In exile, living can feel like an unreal existence, where simple things – like writing – can seem out of reach. Neelufer Suhrabie relates her experience in our latest issue.

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Pinocchio in Neverland - শুদ্ধস্বর
Living in exile can feel like an unreal existence, where simple things – like writing – can seem out of reach.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds exiled Afghans to their native land. Siddiq Barmak reminisces about the music he grew up with in our latest issue.
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Me and Music - শুদ্ধস্বর
For Afghan exiles, the music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds them to Afghanistan.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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The music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds exiled Afghans to their native land. Siddiq Barmak reminisces about the music he grew up with in our latest issue.
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Me and Music - শুদ্ধস্বর
For Afghan exiles, the music they grew up with remains the magic tie that binds them to Afghanistan.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Read Laila Ghezal Azimi's essay to learn how, through tea, language, songs, and everyday work, Afghan women resist invisibility in exile.

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Delhi Kitchen, Kabul Heart - শুদ্ধস্বর
Even in exile, Afghan women resist invisibility through tea, through language, through songs, and through everyday work.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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 Our latest issue features a collective piece produced as part of Paranda, a writer development programme and global network of women writers in Afghanistan and the diaspora, facilitated by Untold Narratives and supported by KfW Stiftung. 

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“Stealing Fire”: Afghan Women Writers on Exile - শুদ্ধস্বর
Afghan women writers describe everyday experiences and dreams in this collective piece.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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This *Letter to America* calls for a redefinition of what it means to be “exceptional.” Not the arrogance of power, but the humility of connection. Not the isolation of privilege, but the courage to see one’s fate and circumstances as intertwined with others.

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Free Speech and Solidarity in a Polarised America - শুদ্ধস্বর
True American “exceptionalism” is measured not by privilege, but by the courage to stand in solidarity with the oppressed across the world. Ordinary Americans must connect struggles and harness collec...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Moshtari Hilal is an Afghan visual artist, writer, and curator based in Hamburg and Berlin. Our latest issue features an excerpt from her work "Ugliness", translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, recipient of the 2014 Gutekunst Translation Prize.
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Cartography of My Ugliness - শুদ্ধস্বর
Moshtari Hilal reflects on body, politics, imperialism, and alienation as an Afghan in exile.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The true meaning of being “exceptional” means "to rise above self-absorption, to recognise the plight of others, and to weave your struggles together with theirs into a shared fabric of resistance". Siddhartha Dhar writes in his Letter to America.
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Free Speech and Solidarity in a Polarised America - শুদ্ধস্বর
True American “exceptionalism” is measured not by privilege, but by the courage to stand in solidarity with the oppressed across the world. Ordinary Americans must connect struggles and harness collec...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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A resilient and determined group of exiled Afghan filmmakers are finding its voice once again. Ghafar Azad, an Afghan filmmaker, chronicles their journey.
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Family Album - শুদ্ধস্বর
The 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan delivered a blow to the nascent Afghan film industry. But a resilient and determined group of exiled filmmakers are finding their voices once again.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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"Each work in this issue can be read as a contrapuntal expression of creative resistance. Together, they form a map of our collective tellable histories..." — read our guest editor Taran Khan's reflection on our latest issue.
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Preface by Guest Editor: Mapping our Tellable Histories - শুদ্ধস্বর
Each work in this issue on Afghans on Exile offers glimpses and shifting insights about borderless living.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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"Would I allow myself to be exceptionally ugly?" asks Moshtari Hilal in her intimate and political book UGLINESS, excerpted @shuddhashar.bsky.social. Girlhood author @melissafebos.bsky.social calls UGLINESS, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, "wondrous and important."

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Cartography of My Ugliness - শুদ্ধস্বর
Moshtari Hilal reflects on body, politics, imperialism, and alienation as an Afghan in exile.
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November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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In their displacement, Afghans preserve fragments of memory, culture, and belonging, transforming exile into both a form of survival and a burden. Our latest issue centers on Afghan experiences of exile.

Read the editorial from our latest issue, "Afghans on Exile “.
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Editorial - শুদ্ধস্বর
Afghans have constituted one of the world’s largest and most protracted displaced populations, with many unable to imagine "home."
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November 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Guest-edited by Taran Khan, our latest issue, "Afghans on Exile", is out now, featuring a host of Afghan voices, from musicians to filmmakers, from photographers to artists.

Find the whole issue here: shuddhashar.com/magazine/iss...
November 1, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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We are delighted to announce that Shudddhashar FreeVoice magazine's Issue 44, "Afghans on Exile", will be available on our website from November 1, 2025.
We invite you to celebrate with us and support the resistance movement mounted by Afghans in exile through their creative works.
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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American Presidents have often been inspiring orators, with many seeking to bring moral clarity and unity. “King Trump”, however, has taken a different approach. Read Andrew Fiala’s “Letter to America.”

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Moronification of America - শুদ্ধস্বর
American Presidents were often inspiring orators and careful wordsmiths. Under “King Trump”, however, the American Presidency and political discourse have devolved into an odiferous farce.
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October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; rather, a map of risks the Nobel Peace Prize runs when it defines what counts as peace. Niladri Chatterjee explores the politics surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Canon, Contestation, Consequence: The Nobel Peace Prize and the Limits of Recognition - শুদ্ধস্বর
The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; they are a map of risks the Nobel Peace Prize still runs when it tells the world what peace look...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Fresh from the press! I am delighted to share with you my latest article on the recent #NobelPeacePrize controversy from a historical and decolonial perspective. Thanks to Ahmedur Tutul Chowdhury for inviting me to write this for Shuddhashar FreeVoice. Have a read! 🤩

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Canon, Contestation, Consequence: The Nobel Peace Prize and the Limits of Recognition - শুদ্ধস্বর
The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; they are a map of risks the Nobel Peace Prize still runs when it tells the world what peace look...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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On International Blasphemy Rights Day, Shuddhashar FreeVoice invites everyone to read our Blasphemy issue.

#blasphemy #FREEBATY #internationalblasphemyrights

[https://shuddhashar.com/magazine/issue-19-blasphemy/]
September 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM