Union Home Minister Amit Shah invoked Satyajit Ray’s cult classic ‘Hirak Rajar Deshe’ and said the legendary filmmaker would have made a sequel to ‘Hiraj Rajar Deshe’ titled ‘Hirak Rani’ based on West ...

The Hirak has reached its natural end. To cling to it is nothing more than intellectual laziness, or a lack of political imagination An anti-government protester is pictured in Algiers in August 2019 ...

A Durga Puja in Birbhum, where Satyajit Ray had shot scenes of two films, has modelled its idols on a scene from his movie Hirak Rajar Deshe. The idols, depicting the scene from Hirak Rajar Deshe ...

Algerian prosecutors have referred a 14-year-old girl to trial due to her alleged connection with the anti-government Hirak protest movement, her lawyer and a human rights group said on Thursday.

The Algerian army has a problem. The country’s octogenarian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, fell from power in April under the pressure of the Hirak, an autonomous protest movement that emerged in ...

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Jean-Pierre Filiu, a specialist in the history of the Arab-Muslim world, has written a well-documented book on Hirak, the popular protest movement in Algeria. For him, it is the latest episode in a ...

It is with this appealing formula that the Italian daily La Republica summed up the moments when the inhabitants of a Turin neighbourhood danced, sang, and partied, each confined to their balcony or ...

Protesters filled the streets of Algiers on Friday as the pro-democracy Hirak movement regained momentum after a year-long break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hirak, meaning “movement” in Arabic, ...