• Susan Seligson

    Susan Seligson has written for many publications and websites, including the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Yankee, Outside, Redbook, the Times of London, Salon.com, Radar.com, and Nerve.com. Profile

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  1. Small mistakes, tiny lapses in research, or just plain ignorance are often very irritating for a reader. Examples of these are, in Seligson’s review, the death of Prof Kibria’s father in “a grenade attack in Dhaka” (the grenade attack took place in Sylhet, not Dhaka), and in Prof Kibria’s book: “On February 21, 1952, the Pakistani army fired on Bengali university students… (p. 15;it was the police, not the Pakistani army, who fired on the protestors). She goes on to refer to the “deaths of several students.” Only one of the five people who are commemorated today as the Shaheeds of February 21 was a student. For a woman of Bangladeshi origin, whose father was a cabinet minister of the country, Prof Kibria takes one of the most important historical events of her former country very, very casually.

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