Shuddhashar FreeVoice

Shuddhashar FreeVoice Magazine, Publication, and Non Profit Organisation. Est. 1990. In 2004, we also started a publishing house. Some of our authors were also threatened.

To inspire, not to impress
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Shuddhashar FreeVoice (শুদ্ধস্বর) was established in 1990 at the advent of the little magazine movement in Bangladesh as an independent magazine and periodical of anti-establishment writing, working towards a broader socio-cultural movement. Shuddhashar was one of the independent little magazines in Bangladesh from the 1990s to the early 2000s. Fr

om then until 31 October 2015, we published more than a thousand books. We became well-known for our commitment to soliciting and supporting young writers, promoting critical thinking and progressive ideas, and publishing material otherwise deemed too controversial. These controversial publications — which included books critical of religious and social restrictions and taboos — led to us receiving several threats of violence. Two of them, Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy, were killed in 2015 by radical Islamist militants. On 31 October 2015, one of Bangladesh’s radical Islamist militant groups stormed our office to kill our publisher. Assailants detained all the staff while calling for blood and struck down the publisher with a machete. He survived and continues our work to this day. Today, Shuddhashar FreeVoice is a non-profit organisation committed to promoting freedom of expression, social justice, and democratic culture and values. We aim to inspire and encourage at-risk writers, artists, and journalists. The platform focuses on being an intellectual and secular voice for Nordic countries — where we are now based — and the many countries from which our exiled contributors have fled. Our primary mission is to publish work at the intersection of politics, free speech, activism, and literature. We remain committed to inspire writers and activists, particularly those facing risks or living in exile, by offering them the opportunity to share their voices and exchange ideas and thereby contribute to social and political change. At Shuddhashar FreeVoice, we firmly believe that truth is multifaceted and that each of us bears the responsibility of engaging in dialogues as a unified international community to seek solutions to global challenges. By fostering connections between individuals, knowledge, and ideas, we strive to address cross-border societal issues collaboratively and set a constructive model for debating and implementing solutions. We dedicate our platform to writers at risk in all parts of the world where expressing opinions and facts has become dangerous. We are committed to those who have written in pursuit of truth; who may have stumbled along the path towards knowledge; who risked their lives for equality, recognition, and justice; and who insist on the right to question and challenge the status quo. Shuddhashar FreeVoice remembers those living in exile, whether in fear or safety, hiding or waiting. Too many have lost their lives because they wrote. We hope others will be inspired to pick up their pens and write for a better world. Our Reader Base
Our reader base is committed to social justice, free speech, LGBTQ+ rights, refugee rights, democratic equality and progress, and the environment. We furthermore encourage students and young people to engage themselves in these issues. We know that if the youth are politically engaged, there is a better chance of achieving world peace, preserving democracy, and averting the climate crisis. We actively seek and publish talented writers and welcome pitches from aspiring contributors. Feel free to reach out to us with your unique ideas and perspectives. Our goal is to publish works that positively and constructively contribute to our mission. We do not publish content that promotes hostility or endorses stereotypes targeting any specific group of people.

American Presidents have often been inspiring orators, with many seeking to bring moral clarity and unity. “King Trump”,...
25/10/2025

American Presidents have often been inspiring orators, with many seeking to bring moral clarity and unity. “King Trump”, however, has taken a different approach. Read Andrew Fiala’s “Letter to America.”

American Presidents were often inspiring orators and careful wordsmiths. Under “King Trump”, however, the American Presidency and political discourse have devolved into an odiferous farce.

The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; they are a map o...
17/10/2025

The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; they are a map of risks the Nobel Peace Prize still runs when it tells the world what peace looks like. Niladri Chatterjee explores the politics surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize.

The ‘optics of absence’ of deserving recipients from the global south is not a ledger of past mistakes; they are a map of risks the Nobel Peace Prize still runs when it tells the world what peace looks like.

In this Shuddhashar Freevoice Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two esteemed scholars: Anthony Kwame ...
02/10/2025

In this Shuddhashar Freevoice Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two esteemed scholars: Anthony Kwame Harrison and Andrew Fiala, both regular contributors to our magazine. They speak to Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern.
Anthony Kwame Harrison is a writer, teacher, skier, and Alumni Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. His article The Inconvenience of Black America featured in our Identity issue.
Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy and Founding Director of the Ethics Center at California State University, Fresno. His latest contribution to our magazine, titled 'Imagining a Pragmatic Post-Identitarian Peace,' was featured in our Identity issue.

In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with two esteemed scholars: Anthony Kwame Harrison and Andrew Fiala, both regular contributors to our magazine. They speak to Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern. Anthony Kwame Harrison is a writer, tea...

Originally conceived in Hebrew and Greek traditions as words that offend deities, blasphemy has morphed in the present d...
30/09/2025

Originally conceived in Hebrew and Greek traditions as words that offend deities, blasphemy has morphed in the present day into a battle of images and a cry of subjective emotional pain, which anyone can use against anyone to silence and dominate them.

On International Blasphemy Rights Day, read Jack David Eller's newest essay.

Originally conceived in Hebrew and Greek traditions as words that offend deities, blasphemy has morphed in the present day into a battle of images and a cry of subjective emotional pain, which anyone can use against anyone to silence and dominate them.

30/09/2025

On International Blasphemy Rights Day, Shuddhashar FreeVoice calls for the abolition of blasphemy laws around the world. We firmly believe that blasphemy is not a crime and stand in solidarity with those who challenge oppressive laws that violate freedom of expression. We demand the withdrawal of charges and the unconditional release of recently arrested Moroccan women’s rights activist Betty Lachgar. We call for the immediate release of all those imprisoned for blasphemy, and an end to the harassment and torture they face. On this occasion, Shuddhashar FreeVoice invites everyone to read our Blasphemy issue.

https://shuddhashar.com/magazine/issue-19-blasphemy/

“Promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.”
26/09/2025

“Promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own.”


In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern, conducts Flas...
18/09/2025

In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, Ella Harris Perin, Shuddhashar FreeVoice’s Oslo Scholars Intern, conducts Flash Interviews with three esteemed writers: Kaniqua Robinson, Karthick Ram Manoharan, and Kylie Fisher.

In this Shuddhashar Free-thought podcast, we share Flash Interviews with three esteemed writers. Kaniqua Robinson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Furman University, wrote ‘Except as a Punishment for Crime’: Black Labor and the US Criminal Justice System for issue 39, Labour. Karthick Ram...

16/09/2025

Adler Dills is a designer, media director, and interdisciplinary creative artist, and a recipient of the Ellen Braaten Media award. He contributed a short story to our latest issue. Listen to him speaking about how to harness the energy of youth and organise.
https://shuddhashar.com/7-above/

Congratulations to our contributor and a dear friend of Shuddhashar, Camelia Dewan, on being awarded at the 2025 ACLS Op...
16/09/2025

Congratulations to our contributor and a dear friend of Shuddhashar, Camelia Dewan, on being awarded at the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes recognise and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open-access humanities books published from 2018 to 2023. Her book, Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh, won in the category of Environmental Humanities. Find the article she wrote for us based on her book in the link below.

Perilously close to rising sea levels and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for adaptation to climate change. The common reading of Bangladesh as a victim of climate change assumes that as global warming increases, ice c...

15/09/2025

Charlie Kirk’s death proves that the price is only tolerable when the gun death is one of "them" (Democrats/liberals), not one of "us" (Republicans/conservatives).

Read Jack David Eller's powerful message in his latest letter to America. Link in bio.

Charlie Kirk’s death proves that the price is only tolerable when the gun death is one of them (Democrats/liberals), not...
14/09/2025

Charlie Kirk’s death proves that the price is only tolerable when the gun death is one of them (Democrats/liberals), not one of us (Republicans/conservatives). Jack David Eller writes in his latest letter to America.

The reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk lays bare the exclusionary boundaries of “the people” in the US and the unacceptable violence against "us" (Republicans/conservatives) and acceptable violence against "them" (Democrats/liberals).

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To inspire, not to impress মন জোগাতে নয়, মন জাগাতে

Shuddhashar started its journey as a Little Magazine in December 1990, publishing writings by contemporary and anti-establishment writers. Between 2004, when Shuddhashar began book publishing, until 2015, more than one thousand novels, stories, poems, and essays were published as hard copy books. After the attack on Shuddhashar's publisher and office on October 31, 2015, all of Shuddhashar’s activities in Bangladesh were halted. Now, Shuddhashar is functioning as an alternative online platform to organize people's thoughts and opinions about freedom of expression, freedom of press, human rights, democratic values, and good governance. Poets, writers, artists, rights activists, freethinkers, exiled writers, and at-risk writers are presenting their ideas, observations, and opinions on this platform.

To inspire, not to impress.

১৯৯০ সালের ডিসেম্বর মাসে একটি লিটল ম্যাগাজিন হিসাবে শুদ্ধস্বরের যাত্রা শুরু হয় । সমসাময়িক ও প্রতিষ্টান বিরোধি লেখকদের চিন্তা ও লেখা প্রকাশিত হতো এতে। ২০০৪ সালে এর সহযোগি প্রতিষ্টান হিসাবে শুদ্ধস্বর নামেই বই প্রকাশনা কার্যক্রম শুরু হয়। ২০১৫ পর্যন্ত প্রায় এক হাজারের বেশি উপন্যাস-গল্প-কবিতা-প্রবন্ধসহ নানান ধরনের হার্ড ভার্সন বই প্রকাশিত হয়েছে শুদ্ধস্বর থেকে। ২০১৫ সালের ৩১ অক্টোবর প্রকাশককে হত্যা করার উদ্দেশ্যে শুদ্ধস্বর এর কার্যালয়ে আক্রমন করার পর থেকে বাংলাদেশে শুদ্ধস্বরের সবধরনের কার্যক্রম বন্ধ হয়ে যায়। বর্তমানে বিকল্প মাধ্যম অনলাইনে শুদ্ধস্বর মুক্তচিন্তা ও কথা বলার স্বাধীনতা, সংবাদ প্রকাশের স্বাধীনতা, মানবাধিকার, গণতান্ত্রিক সুশাসন বিষয়ে মানুষের চিন্তা ও মতামত সংগঠিত করার জন্য প্ল্যাটফর্ম হিসাবে কাজ শুরু করেছে। কবি-লেখক-শিল্পী-অধিকার কর্মী-মুক্ত চিন্তক-নির্বাসিত লেখক এবং বিপদগ্রস্থ লেখকরা এই প্ল্যাটফর্মে তাদের চিন্তা-ধারনা-পর্যবেক্ষণ ও মতামত তুলে ধরছেন।

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