My hero Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
"Many of the women of my grandmother's generation attended the Sakhawat school, becoming the first women in their families to become literate."
Tahmima Anam, The Guardian
Articles
An education: Inside Bangladesh's madrasas
"Bangladesh's madrasas are viewed with suspicion for their links with militant Islam. So what kind of schooling do they offer girls? Tahmima Anam entered their secretive world to find out."
Tahmima Anam, The Guardian
Guardian Books podcast:
Politics in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan
In the first of a new series on how writers use fiction to make political cases, we focus on the Indian sub-continent, with Tahmima Anam, Mirza Waheed, Aatish Taseer and Mohsin Hamid
Presented by Claire Armitstead and produced by Tim Maby
Tahmima Anam: The Good Muslim is an intimate view of extremism
Author Tahmima Anam talks about how the atrocities of the Pakistani occupation of Bangladesh inspired her second novel, The Good Muslim, the follow up to her acclaimed debut novel, A Golden Age.
Tina Jackson, Metro
Parallel Realities
"The challenges of peace are different from those of war," says Bangladeshi author Tahmima Anam as she talks about the making of her second book The Good Muslim, to be released on May 15...
Ziya Us Salam, The Hindu
Tahmima Anam lifts the veil on Bangladesh's ugly truths
Janice Turner, The Times
Rabindranath Tagore's legacy lies in the freedom-seeking women of his fiction
"Romantic poet, song-writer, novelist, nationalist, painter and great idealist, Rabindranath Tagore is, to South Asians, a cultural icon and hero..."
Tahmima Anam, The Independent
Bangladesh at the Crossroads
"It is winter and Dhaka is full of lights. Shaheed Minar, the memorial commemorating the Language Movement that led to the independence of Bangladesh, glows a bright orange..."
Tahmima Anam, Financial Times
Happy 40th Birthday, Bangladesh
"It boasts a growing economy, a vibrant political scene and a strong women's movement . . . Forty years after the bloody war that gave it birth, Bangladesh has much to celebrate..."
Tahmima Anam, The Guardian
Losing Bangladesh, by Degrees
"IMAGINE, if you will, a country marooned between a snowy mountain range and a churning sea..."
Tahmima Anam, New York Times
New Fiction Star Taps Bangladeshi Roots
"Novelist hailed as the next Monica Ali recalls the horrors of warfare"
Vanessa Thorpe and Mahtab Haider in Dhaka, The Guardian
