by Puru Miah | Mar 20, 2022 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets
Is it a celebration of diversity and an aid to community cohesion in Brick Lane, or is it a case of, art washing and whitewash of history? A new image or reinforcing the old? Modern-day Sylhet and the urban sprawl that occupies both banks of the Surma. Stones in the...
by Puru Miah | Dec 27, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Democracy
A ‘tongue in cheek’ exploration of the phenomena in Tower Hamlets politics, where everyone is a suspected Lutfur Rahman puppet unless he/she can prove otherwise. A typical day in Tower Hamlets The first fact, I first joined the Labour Party in 1995. The...
by Puru Miah | Nov 30, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community
Marabout: romanized: murābiṭ, lit. One who is attached/garrisoned to the frontier. Also, a wandering spiritual teacher. On Friday the 19th of November 2021, large crowds gathered at the Ford Square Mosque in Whitechapel, officially known as Eshaatul Islam Mosque, to...
by Puru Miah | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
Residents will be moved out of a large housing association block, Clare House in Bow, after inspections revealed it “cannot be kept safe without major refurbishment or demolition”. A slumlord (or slum landlord): is a slang term for a landlord, generally an absentee...
by Puru Miah | Sep 19, 2021 | Blog: All Things Mile End, All Things Tower Hamlets, Community, Democracy
An attempt to answer questions following the controversial decision by Tower Hamlets Council in permitting the application by Truman’s to build a shopping mall in Brick Lane. “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Photographs...
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