Recently, while rereading The Museum of Innocence, I was struck again by Orhan Pamuk's insistence that memory does not disappear all at once.

Many Bangladeshi historians and intellectuals have reinforced this habit of seeing ourselves only as victims.

Why does this matter, especially as a new generation of political leaders and power brokers prepare to assert their own versions of history?

Misguided efforts to compare the 1971 war and the 2024 uprising should stop

In the past, we have faced disappointment; we don't want to return to a state where politicians work for their own benefit.

It is a rare instance in the world when a country is sending its raw materials—jute in the case of Bangladesh—abroad without utilising it themselves

While history has never been a one-man show, viewing it through the eyes of influential leaders can lend us a bigger picture.