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Tuning the melody of Baul songs into peace education
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A song for the soul
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The Bhola Cyclone and the making of Bangladesh
Beyond its tragic human cost, the Bhola Cyclone likely had political consequences—within a year, a new nation was born.
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The agony over Partition-related uprootings from home and homeland suffuses Ghatak's cinema.
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Reading power: How everyday texts shaped life under the British Empire
At the heart of Required Reading are forgotten readers from the past.
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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.
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My discovery of Sher-e-Bangla
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Sher-e-Bangla and his political rivals
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The thrills of Rakib Hasan
Rakib Hasan took Western adventure tales and breathed into them a Bangladeshi heart.
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How Bengal discovered Japan: A 150-year chronicle
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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.
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Baba Allauddin Khan and the making of a musical lineage
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Meghnad Saha, the Dhaka-born scientist who dreamed a technological future
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The lost history of Pilkhana’s elephant depot
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