Behind prison walls, Kaiser turned confinement into creation.

When the Liberation War erupted, Raihan crossed into Kolkata—not to retreat, but to fight with his camera.

The letter was both personal intimidation and a symbol of the regime’s determination to silence intellectual resistance.

Abdul Muktadir was a gifted geologist and a deeply admired teacher at Dhaka University.

During the First World War, he served in the Royal British Army, fought in Iraq with the Bengal Infantry (Bengali Paltan), and later joined the 1919 Victory March in London, where he was awarded the prestigious Sword of Honour.

In 1948, his historic demand in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly that Bangla be recognised alongside Urdu ignited the first spark of what would later become the Language Movement.

At dawn on 16 December, Rashid Talukder set out to take photographs with Michel Laurent, an American photographer from the Associated Press.

Because the image was published, Naib Uddin’s life came under threat.

Our stomachs often remain empty—not because we do not work hard, but because life is unfair

Tajuddin’s politics was not about quick wins or symbolic gestures

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.

Men who once harvested rice now drive auto-rickshaws along the asphalt.

In the markets of North Bengal, the Rabidas community has long endured prejudice, their cobbler’s stools passed from one generation to the next.

At dawn, when Dhaka is just beginning to stir, thousands of rickshaw pullers set off on their daily grind.

It has been a year since Bangladesh freed itself from the murderous clutches of a tyrannical regime that had made corruption the rule of business, extreme arrogance of power the norm, and brutal repression its operational style.

The Daily Star (TDS): What is the current status of the Labour Reform Commission and its activities?

The period between 1945 and 1979 was one of Cold War and decolonisation. The Cold War entered a different trajectory with the rapprochement between China and the US and the Iranian Revolution.

History has a cruel way of dimming the light of those who served with quiet dignity while amplifying the voices of those who demanded attention. In the pantheon of Bangladesh’s founding fathers, few figures have been as systematically overlooked—and arguably mistreated—as Tajuddin Ahmed, the nation’s first Prime Minister.

The Daily Star (TDS): How and when did you first come into contact with Tajuddin Ahmad?

I did not personally know Tajuddin Ahmad, but he was a contemporary of ours, and the politics he practised was within the Awami League—though there were different strands within the party.