About Aparna Ray
Passionate about travel, cultures, people, books and movies, I am a qualitative researcher and social media enthusiast based in Kolkata, India. Blogging since 2005, I love penning my daily English Newsmericks and also occasionally blog in Bangla/ Bengali (my mother tongue) at খোলা জানালা. At Global Voices, I help bring the ongoing conversations in the Bangla blogosphere to the global audience. I also carry back global conversations to the Bangla/ Bengali community by translating select posts from Global Voices into Bangla at Global Voices Bangla Lingua.
Latest posts by Aparna Ray
Stories
February 9th, 2010
Sri Lanka Presidential Elections: Sarath Fonseka arrested
General Sarath Fonseka, the opposition candidate who lost to the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the recently concluded 6th Presidential Election in Sri Lanka, has been arrested by the military police.
January 29th, 2010
Bangladesh: A Trial Ends After 34 Years - Closure At Last?
Bangladesh authorities executed five ex-army officers for their role in the 1975 assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman - the country's independence leader and its first President. Bloggers share their reactions on the long awaited trial and the method of punishment.
January 27th, 2010
South Asia
Environmental blogger Hemant Anant Jain aka Munna, writes a thought-provoking post on 26th January, the nation's 61st Republic Day, urging people to look beyond the commercial “growing market” tag and work towards restoring the rich environmental heritage of the amazing country that is India.
January 19th, 2010
Bangla blogs: Grieving for Haiti and Lessons Learned
January 10th, 2010
India: A Critically Ill Marxist Leader Trends On Twitter
December 15th, 2009
South Asia
For some of us a bowl of hot chicken soup on a cold winter evening is the ultimate comfort food. Meena Agarwal at Hooked on Heat shares her mouth-watering recipe of ‘make-your-own chicken noodle soup'. Loved her idea of allowing guests to personalize their own share of the soup.
Global Voices Turns 5!
We're celebrating our fifth anniversary with testimonials from community members,
read what they have to say »
Funding drive
Global Voices Email Updates
Get summaries of new stories from Global Voices in your inbox daily, weekly, or just sign up for important announcements.
Our Other Sites
Special Projects
This site is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Please read our attribution policy.
SudaneseDrima28 posts 
Jenny Cascante Gonzalez6 posts 
Fabienne Flessel70 posts 
Jennifer Cheung4 posts 
Gabriela García Calderón4 posts 
Caroline Finlay5 posts 
Juan Arellano132 posts 
Samuel Maina19 posts 
Steve Sharra22 posts 
Belen Bogado9 posts 
Alice Backer656 posts 
Renata Avila69 posts