In conversation with Clinton B Seely, emeritus professor of South Asian Languages and Civilisations at the University of Chicago.

From its very first issue, we have been striving to shape Ebong Boi into an important platform for writers, readers, and publishers. To continue working towards the fulfilment of the dream with which Ebong Boi began its journey seven years ago, we seek the support and companionship of book lovers.

Accessing the sea through the Karnaphuli River, Chittagong’s site was exceptional in the early modern age of commerce.

Rafiqul was an eyewitness to the Language Movement of 1948. At the time he was a Class Ten student at St Gregory’s School.

On February 22, The Azad published the news of the student shooting in an eight-column banner headline.

Principal Abul Kashem is an unforgettable figure in the history of the Language Movement.

Before and after 1947, there were many Islamist claimant parties in the Indian subcontinent.

The most significant public confrontation between the Khaksars and the Muslim League occurred in Delhi shortly before Partition, on June 9, 1947.

Walk through the narrow lanes of old Dhaka in the 1950s and you’d hear it before you saw it: the rhythmic thrum of presses, the chatter of compositors, the swish of paper reams unwrapped and weighed.

Although Maulana Madani and Maulana Maududi stood almost side by side in opposing the Muslim League’s efforts to create a separate state of Pakistan by partitioning India, they disagreed sharply on many related issues.

During the struggle for the creation of ‘Pakistan’, three distinct strands of opposition emerged from Maulana Maududi and his party towards the Muslim League.

What mattered to him were moments when journalism mattered beyond institutions.

Against Madani’s Indian nationalism, Jinnah’s argument was that the historical interaction and proximity between Hindus and Muslims in Indian society existed only at the level of external social life.

“Eisenstein, Pudovkin / We shall fight, we shall win” was a chant by students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) during the 2015 student strikes.

Architecture becomes the primary victim because it is the most visible, most durable, and most symbolic form of cultural expression.

how did this dish—so central to our family get-togethers, yet so different from everything else we eat in Bengali cuisine, with its preponderance of rice in Bangladesh—come to be here?

The previous article on Chittagong highlighted its nature as a frontier town in Harikela. The Markandeya Purana, one of the earliest of the major Puranas, validated Chittagong’s marginality from South Asia by locating it within Bhadrasva-varsha as opposed to Bharatavarsa.

The eastern subcontinent is one of the most fluid ecological zones in the world.

Our adventure commenced with the flight from Dhaka to Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG).

To those who grew up watching Bengali cinema during its most creatively vibrant years, Jayasree Kabir was more than an actress. She embodied a particular kind of screen intelligence—restrained, thoughtful, and emotionally precise.