Can Sculptures Speak? Understanding Dhaka’s Public Art and Its Effect on Collective Memory in Bangla

&ldquo;Memory takes root in the concrete, in spaces, gestures, images, and objects; history binds itself strictly to temporal continuities, to progressions and to relations between things.&rdquo;<br /> <br /> &mdash; Pierre Nora,<br /> <br /> Between History and Memory: Les Lieux de M&eacute;moire<br /> <br /> In May of 2017, the statue of a saree-clad, blind-folded, Lady Justice was pulled down from the Supreme Court premises and moved to an annex building due to pressure from far-right religious group, Hefazat-e-Islam. The incident brought to notice the anxiety surrounding religious...