Kazi Fazlur Rahman, a civil servant and an intellectual giant
15 December 2025, 09:57 AM
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Chittagong, before Chittagong: An early history
14 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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The untold story behind 1971’s two most haunting photographs
12 December 2025, 02:00 AM
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In Focus / What Begum Rokeya knew about changing Bengali Muslims from within
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Living in a time of fear: The rise of digital inquisition in Bangladesh
4 December 2025, 08:33 AM
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A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story
30 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Early North Bengal: A (re-)creation and a lone journey
30 November 2025, 02:00 AM
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My experience as an editor of a Bangla magazine
28 November 2025, 08:21 AM
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‘Struggle’: Noazesh Ahmed and his first masterpiece
24 November 2025, 08:08 AM
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Birth Centenary / Remembering Munier Bhai
23 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Why was Sher-e-Bangla so popular?
What made Sher-e-Bangla so popular among the masses of Bengal?
27 October 2025, 11:03 AM
The dawn of Islamic songs in Bengal
Though Muslims of undivided Bengal used to view music and dance as Hindu traditions and distanced themselves from them, they warmly embraced Abbasuddin's Islamic songs written by Kazi Nazrul Islam.
26 October 2025, 18:00 PM
My discovery of Sher-e-Bangla
The discovery of these rare documents and letters sent to A. K. Fazlul Huq offers deeper insights into history, verifying past accounts and vividly bringing the story of the United Front election to life.
25 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Sher-e-Bangla and his political rivals
The most aggressive efforts to sideline him and remove him from the Chief Minister's office came from Suhrawardy.
25 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The thrills of Rakib Hasan
Rakib Hasan took Western adventure tales and breathed into them a Bangladeshi heart.
23 October 2025, 08:44 AM
How Bengal discovered Japan: A 150-year chronicle
As Asia's first Nobel laureate, Tagore's visit to Japan created an unprecedented stir among the Japanese people.
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Abul Hashim’s Bangalistaan
Hashim believed that ethnically driven societies with a common language would benefit from using religion as a tool for political self-representation rather than relegating it to the private realm.
13 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Baba Allauddin Khan and the making of a musical lineage
He aspired after Hindu-Muslim unity and a healthy synthesis of all faiths and creeds.
8 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Meghnad Saha, the Dhaka-born scientist who dreamed a technological future
Very few scientists in the entire world would think about moving in the direction Saha had ventured for his country
6 October 2025, 10:52 AM
The lost history of Pilkhana’s elephant depot
In the seventeenth century, Dhaka was among the most prosperous cities of eastern India, home to nearly nine lakh people.
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Dhaka’s Forgotten WWII Story: Spielberg’s Father and the Bridge Busters
When we think of World War II, Dhaka rarely enters the conversation.
30 September 2025, 09:26 AM
Gandhi’s search for harmony in Noakhali
From the period of his lifetime and particularly in the aftermath of his assassination, Gandhi’s philosophies have been the subject of deep scholarly discussion.
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Sandwip’s forgotten wars
When the Dutch, Portuguese, Mughals, and Arakanese fought over a tiny island
21 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Why the 1962 education movement must not be forgotten
The movement was launched entirely by students, without any external influence. Moreover, the central student leaders themselves had not anticipated that such a massive uprising could emerge solely from education-related and academic grievances.
16 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Fragments of resistance: The counter-archive of Mohammad Idrish
To understand Idrish is to approach it as more than a documentary. It is a meditation on how cinema can bear witness, reactivate memory, and ignite resistance. The film stands at a crossroads where the insights of critical thinkers illuminate its form and force.
15 September 2025, 13:58 PM
Why Zahir Raihan matters more than ever after the August uprising
When a colonised people rises to claim sovereignty, culture is never a bystander.
15 September 2025, 09:41 AM
The double edge of rebellion: Nepal reshaping the grammar of politics
Nepal's federal, secular, inclusive republic—though crippled by corruption—remains a historic achievement.
14 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Starlink in Gaza: Humanitarian Lifeline or Military Asset?
This tension between Starlink’s dual role as technological infrastructure and as a geopolitical tool came into stark reality in Gaza.
9 September 2025, 09:11 AM
Thus spoke Suhrawardy
For many centuries before partition and independence in I947 the type of government experienced by the peoples of the subcontinent of Asia was imposed by right of conquest; it lacked the ingredient of consent.
8 September 2025, 08:06 AM
Suhrawardy: A statesman of democracy
I first came to know Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in the formative years of my education and legal career. Mr Suhrawardy was a mentor, a role model, and an inspiration, both as a lawyer and a politician.
8 September 2025, 07:30 AM