Comments on: Brick Laners Vow to Halt Film Version of Monica Ali’s Novel, Claim They Kept Her From Winning the Booker http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=159 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Imran http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=159#comment-436 Imran Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:10:52 +0000 http://www.dibsblog.com/?p=159#comment-436 The book tries to make out that all Sylheti people (Bangladeshis in this country mostly from Sylhet, Hobigonj, Moulvi Bazaar and Shunamgonj) are backward. No community likes to be perceived to be illiterate. Anyway, we know most Dhakaiya Bangladeshis don’t like Sylhetis because we are better off than them because there are more Sylheti people living in UK, US, Canada, Italy etc than from any other region. So it is envy that makes them attack us.

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