Brick Lane Circle 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 India Company such as Nick Robins. At the same time it also worked with such experts to
Brick Lane (2007 film) of opposition from some of the local community, police advised her to change locations after demonstrations were threatened. The novel and film provoked criticism by some in the Bangladeshi community in London, who thought that Chanu and the Bangladeshis from Sylheti generally, were portrayed in a negative way. Some traders organized against having the film company doing any production in the neighborhood; on 31 July 2006, about 120 British Bangladeshis held a protest in Brick Lane. Others wrote letters to the editor in "The Guardian" and spoke in support of the film production, including the British chapter of PEN and