Path Ahead For Writers
Dhaka Courier|April 27, 2018

Path Ahead For Writers

Alamgir Khan
Path Ahead For Writers

Mankind is passing through a tumultuous time everywhere in today’s world. For the need to lay down a new ideological foundation for making a meaningful progress, human creativity has to be freed, not chained down as it is being seen nowadays. Yet, creative people are finding it hard to work in necessary freedom in this world of intolerance, racism, bigotry and unrestrained reign of money. Liberalism at the international level going backward, the worsening form of global capitalism led by immorality and corruption, rise of nationalist politics tinged with apartheid and religious intolerance and hatred, use and abuse of social media and various other factors in global and local politics contribute to making this time harder for creative people here and elsewhere.

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