Interfaith couples talk about lived experiences From using both surnames to none, parents have also kept religion column blank while admitting their kids to school
They left the religion column blank while admitting their kids to school. Their daughter uses both their surnames. Another couple did not give any surname to their daughter.
Two Hindu-Muslim couples spoke about their lived experiences at an online discussion on December 23. They said they did not want their children to grow up as people belonging to any particular religion and that their marriage and living together bore testimonies that love was bigger than the boundaries set by dogmatic religionists.
Once More into the Past (Daily Star Books, 2020)
This was a bad year in so many ways but it was a good year to catch up on reading. One book which bowled me over and which I realise I should have read a long time back is Akhteruzzaman Elias s masterpiece,
Khowabnama (Mawla Brothers, 1996). I believe it s being translated now; if it finds a good international publisher it will surely be on the shelves with the greatest novels of the last century and place Elias on the shelves with Hardy and Faulkner as a literary chronicler who made a whole region come alive at a certain moment of history. Another novel that overwhelmed me in the Covid-19 year but had been gathering dust in my shelves earlier is Jose Saramagao s