Aninda Rahman
Aninda Rahman is an artist, poet, and a moving image experimenter. Formerly a rhetoric designer, he studied literature, cinema, and Islamic arts at different universities. He identifies as a Bangladeshi.
Aninda Rahman writes about the quiet insistence of Syed Manzoorul Islam, as a neighbor, teacher, writer and an actor of history.
Beyond commodity fetishism, performative appreciation and wholesale appropriation by the urban elite, Rickshaw art indicates an ancient and folk artisanship with a rich elemental diversity and stylistic imagination.
Conversations
A Non-conformist in Every Possible Way — A Conversation with Nazes Afroz on Syed Mujtaba Ali
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July 1, 2024
Translator Nazes Afroz in conversation with artist and writer Aninda Rahman on the relevance of reading Syed Mujtaba Ali today
Rabindranath Tagore’s famous poem “Shonar Tori” is typically interpreted as an existential encounter between man and himself. A different reading emerges when the objects in the poem are taken literally at their historic moment.