In the sultry air of March yawns my absence.

As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has been a 540% increase in Fentanyl-related deaths over the past three

Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The

The process through which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) became a folk hero in Bangladesh, that is to say, the way in which his

The historic announcement of March 7 by Bangabandhu was, in fact, the call for the independence of Bangladesh. The speech inspired

With the rise of fake Freedom Fighter certificates, it is nearly impossible not to be a cynic when one hears about early teen or eleven

"Most children have two whole legs and two whole arms but this little six-year-old that Dinesh was carrying had already lost one leg, the right one from the lower thigh down, and was now about to lose his right arm.” Anuk Arudpragasam's powerful debut novel “The Story of a Brief Marriage” starts with this haunting description of a shrapnel-struck child being brought to a makeshift clinic and about to undergo

Nationalism is one of the most powerful political ideologies of the world and its wave still vibrates through the Indian subcontinent

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Say this, don't say that.

I was never an autograph hunter. Never felt the urge, or the thrill, or the bragging right, or any of the rapid heart-thumping emotions

“Up there he floats,

Living in Germany made it possible for me to pamper two of my deadliest indulgences: my addiction to chocolate and travelling.

“Are you interested in spiritually inclined younger men?” My recent tinder match asked.

Darkness had fallen upon the graveyard of thousand lives, along with a cold breeze which swept away the rotten stench of dead flesh.

“The book is a memoir, not a history, and makes no claim to a historian's detachment or research.” With this statement, A G Stock

racing ahead

I know of Capt. Banerjee, Military Observer, only because he wrote feature articles for the Times of Saigon, edited by my father,

Recently, I have come across a significant number of Bangladeshi online journals, diligently invested in literatures in

If we eventually are