Fahmid Al Zaid
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- 3
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- Sep 5, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Waiting for April: The other side of migration in the Sundarbans (opens the original)
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In April, on a hot summer evening, I went to the weekly bazaar in Munshiganj with my local friend, Shamim. The road was crowded with temporary shops, bicycles and vans. Suddenly, I noticed several votvoti (motorised three-wheelers) stuck in the traffic. Every man was carrying a backpack on his lap. I had not seen this before. “Who are these people?” I asked Shamim. “Our people,” he replied, looking at them. “They are returning from the brickfields. They have been away for six months.” One votvot
Tigers and the empire: A history of hunting, power and resistance (opens the original)
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“When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.” -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1902) Every year on 29 July, World Tiger Day celebrates the tiger as a conservation icon. Yet, this celebrity image obfuscates a forgotten but violent history for tigers. Long before the tiger became a conservation species with state protection in many parts of the globe, it was systematically hunted and killed as a display of human power. To ob
Pachapdi Gazi, the 'Jim Corbett of Bengal', and the truth about Sundarbans 'man-eaters' (opens the original)
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Often referred to as the ‘Jim Corbett of Bengal’ by the popular press and educated folk, Pachapdi Gazi killed 53 tigers in the Sundarbans—20 of which were ‘man-eaters’—before he officially retired as a hunter after the independence of Bangladesh. Gazi killed most of his tigers in the Sundarbans during the East Pakistani era (1947–71), when tigers were not considered iconic conservation species. Recently, I read Pachapdi Gazi's hunting memoir, Man-Eaters of the Sundarban, which was published in 1
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