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Bobby Hajjaj

Bobby Hajjaj is an academic and political activist. He is a highly published researcher and lecturer at Bangladesh's top-ranked university (North South University), and the leader of an opposition political party. Over the last decade, he has endured government sanctions, prison, interrogations, and for a brief stint, exile.

In the Name of Love | Bobby Hajjaj

They would have called Khaleq a degenerate, a vile beast. He claimed he was in love. Wise men have said that we contemplate all of existence through words; that words have strengths beyond their phonetic constraints, they tether our world to the heavens. But not all words are made equal.   What of the word ‘love’? What is it but a crippling fear of loss? If one’s soul is the rent of all earthly longing, then does not that fear disintegrate? Yet, they still say that love, human love, transcends the divine.   They say that all stories ever told are love stories, no matter how banal or how replete with anfractuous twists; there are those that unfold like salacious epic tales of the Mahabharata or the Arabian Nights; and then, there is the tale of Khaleq and Shahana.   [Read the rest...] “In the Name of Love | Bobby Hajjaj”