Brick Lane Circle of charge, notably the Brady Community Arts Centre, Rich Mix Centre, Jagonari Centre, and Kobi Nazrul Centre Brick Lane Circle The Brick Lane Circle is a voluntary organisation based in Tower Hamlets, London, which organises talks, seminars and conferences on subjects relating to Bangladesh and Bangladeshis abroad. Its events are free and open to all members of the public. Since 2010, it has organised an annual Bengal History Week based at the Whitechapel Idea Store (library) each October. Its East India company project has been one of its more popular topics. This hosted talks by notable historians of the East
Monica Ali as characters in an English novel had the force of a defining caricature ... [S]ome of the Sylhetis of Brick Lane did not recognise themselves. Bengali Muslims smart under an Islamic prejudice that they are irreligious and disorderly, the impure among the pure, and here was a proto-Bengali writer with a Muslim name, portraying them as all of that and more. Greer criticised Monica Ali's "lack of authenticity", as she had never spent much time in the Brick Lane community, and no longer spoke the Bengali language fluently. The writer Salman Rushdie criticised Greer for getting involved, saying that her