Graffiti expresses characters, slogans of mass uprising

Students draw various graffiti, including the independence of Palestine and a quotation of leader of the oppressed Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani ‘Listen, do not mingle religion and state…’,   on a wall of the Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University recently. | New Age photo Artists and activists from different organisations created graffiti works representing characters and slogans of the student-led mass uprising that led to the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, and its aftermath. They also depicted their desires in the days ahead through their graffiti works. After the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina government, students drew graffiti on walls and streets of the Dhaka city as elsewhere across the country to express their demands and desires for building a discrimination-free Bangladesh. ‘After the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina government some groups tried to remove the slogans written during the mass uprising. We, however, took steps to bring back those slogans and graffiti and recreate them,’ said Deepak Suman, director of theatre troupe Teerondaz Repertory on Friday. ‘Students wrote the slogans portraying that difficult time when people, including students and activists, were being killed on the streets. The slogans also portrayed the police arresting, and firing...