We would like to recall with gratitude some harbingers of education from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) in the 19th century, who have ‘illumined’ the lives of generations by founding modern educational institutions at the primary, secondary and university levels in British India.

Winston Churchill spent three years in British India, a freshly minted cavalry subaltern,

The great revolt of 1857 was a momentous struggle against colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent—the most widespread anti-colonial struggle during the nineteenth century.

The great revolt of 1857 was a momentous struggle against colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent—the most widespread anti-colonial struggle during the nineteenth century.

Ranajit Guha ( May 23, 1923 - April 28, 1923) was an influential Indian historian and scholar renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to the field of Subaltern Studies.

In a few days, the whole world will celebrate the centenary of Sen: the man who changed India’s cinematic landscape forever.

After the enactment of the Digital Security Act (DSA) in 2018, the Sampadak Parishad published an elaborate

The labour movement in Bangladesh has a rich and complex history that dates back to the 19th century.

April 17, 1971, is a historic day that shines brightly in the collective memory of Bangladesh with immense pride, unwavering strength, and boundless enthusiasm.

During the middle of the past century, two Frenchmen were known and admired around the world. They were General de Gaulle and André Malraux.

A unique feature of Indian history is that over thousands of years people of different nationalities had entered India in large numbers. 

Liberation War Museum (LWM) in Dhaka tells the story not only of the Liberation War but also of the long struggles of breaking the fetters that, over the decades, led to the ultimate formation of Bangladesh.

In 1938, as Hitler marched across Europe, Virginia Woolf, in Three Guineas, urged women to “maintain an attitude of complete indifference” to war. She took a clear position on whether or not women have a stake in politics and war.

In this write-up, I shall briefly touch upon a few eminent personalities of the past who have enriched the lives of generations through their varied contributions to society in the fields of education, arts, sport and culture.

I have been writing about water development issues since the 1988 flood and, over time, developed a conceptual framework for discussing these issues.

The very fact that a language identifies and defines a specific human group often leads to controversies and conflicts.

Abdul Karim posited that it was the Muslims who laid the foundation of the secular and romantic genre in Bengali literature.

Born in a respectable middle-class Muslim family and holder of an Intermediate of Science degree from the Aligarh Muslim University, Munier Chowdhury (1925–1971) was growing up as a fashionable young gentleman with an Islamic worldview till his involvement with Anti-Fascist Writers and Artists Union in 1943,

As Darwin said, the linguistic system of modern humans has the “power of associating together the most diversified sounds and ideas” to produce an infinite number of sentences.

When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal hit the streets in India’s national capital on January 16 this year to protest the alleged non-approval by the Lt Governor Saxena to his government’s proposal to send school teachers abroad for training,