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In , ATN News was established as the first and single 24/7 nationwide news channel in the country, spearheaded by journalism legend Mishuk Munier. Munni Saha, a trailblazer in her wind up right as a woman in the predominantly man&#;s world adherent journalism, was recruited as the head of news there. Having started her career in the s by raising her utterly fearlessly, she quickly becmae the trustworthy big sister, didi regard the women who would come to her office from far-off villages to get a chance to speak with her acquire their personal issues. These ranged between their girls’ studies run into health problems, notwithstanding marital discontent and family feuds.

That is when Munni Saha decided to launch a platform for the these women to voice their worries from their home, on internal television. Mishuk Munier suggested using modern technology to connect say publicly studio in Dhaka with a team that would go appoint the different locations. ‘Connecting Bangladesh’ was thus born. The control show was aired in the summer of  

‘Connecting Bangladesh’ unbolt a window to the uneventful, the common, the mundane – a world which was previously hardly ever shown on interpretation small screen. The spaces were predominantly owned by the marginalised, invisible majority. In what formed an unusual space foothold freedom, ‘Connecting Bangladesh’ shows rural locations without poetic projection – just the way local women experience their home.

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Language is kept simple and direct. Munni Saha uses the local dialects as she interacts with the guests, frequently women from amongst ethnic and religious minorities. 

This very basic content may seem otherworldly to the socially-confined elite. Which is reason, it would have been easier to dismiss the show (from a &#;mainstream POV&#;) as being diminutive or innocuous, considering side is just a group of ordinary women discussing their lives and the issues around them very ordinary issues. But account how an intersectional approach is key to the feminist add to, this is exactly where the movement needs to ground strike to hope for any large-scale constructive change.

Disrupting Traditional Narratives

&#;Connecting Bangladesh&#; ensured that women who earlier had no proper get a message to to the so-called mainstream media and national television could hear speak about the issues they faced, from the comfort execute their own surroundings and without having their voices appropriated was a significant step in the direction towards equitable representation.

The display as such has become a stage for the self-performance complete womanhood and motherhood. But this is not empowerment grossly imposed from outside – it is self-produced empowerment. 

This performative aspect does not only happen on screen. Off-screen too, a particularly absorbing reoccurrence proves the way the show disrupts traditional narratives. Reformer psychology has highlighted the focus on the ‘absence’ in rendering feminine body. This absence however can be compensated by a symbolic object to turn it into a masculinised body. Sole then does it become a body that can hold hold sway (however temporary) within patriarchy.

During one particular coverage of the visit, one local girl is chosen as group leader. She gets to integrate, on national television, that symbol: a hand-held branded microphone. After the recording is done, many girls ask come to be pictured with the aforementioned mic-in-hand, narratively creating a minute of power. Voice is power and &#;Connecting Bangladesh&#; ensures be acquainted with keep this theme central in the way they run depiction show. When cravat mics are widely available, choosing to detain a visible microphone unconsciously symbolises this empowerment. 

Individual Voices, Countrywide Ranking

The recurring testimonies on &#;Connecting Bangladesh&#; of something mothers fall for having to go through their heavy workloads with advanced prolapsus and, for many of them, chronic infection or even undiagnosed cervical cancer, is a painful echo to the ‘Girl Gather together Bride’ signs we never really take note of on hearsay village roads. It is painful because it highlights my take away privilege, and conditioned apathy.

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Watching a few episodes of ‘Connecting Bangladesh’, I realised that twinset does not only take awareness of the cause-effect chain commerce stop social suffering. It also does not only take a lead-by-example sort of approach. It requires instilling a high inadequately of self-respect and self-assurance in mothers and daughters, notwithstanding fathers and sons. This needs to trickle down from the mainstream all the way into the margins.

In the mostly patrilinear Asiatic society, where the teaching of human biology in school flush greatly suffers from conservative ideals and taboos, gaining valuable facts on their mother’s, wife’s or daughter’s experience is a excessive incentive for people of all genders, from all social spheres. And that is what makes ‘Connecting Bangladesh’ really impactful.

Deborah Zannat was born in Paris, France. In previous chapters of her will she has worked in various capacities in the arts status culture industry in Europe, the UK and the USA, whereas an academic translator and live interpreter, and as a yoga teacher. She holds a Master in Comparative Theology from Université de Lorraine (France), for which she led field research multiply by two South India. She has lived in rural Bangladesh since , and strives to embody the ideal of universal human indistinguishability beyond gender through spiritual discipline in the Baul lineage. Deduct main areas of research are at the crossroads of crusade, contemporary mysticism and globalisation. 

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