Churchill and India Manipulation or Betrayal?
Winston Churchill spent three years in British India, a freshly minted cavalry subaltern,
1857: The Uprising in Delhi and Its Brutal Suppression
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.
Honouring Mujibnagar heroes
April 17, 1971, is a historic day that shines brightly in the collective memory of Bangladesh with immense pride, unwavering strength, and boundless enthusiasm.
Insights from India’s Nurse Migration: Lessons for Bangladesh
It has now been almost half a century since Indian nurses began migrating abroad, long enough to understand the difficulties and benefits they have encountered in their professional and personal journey. I have studied their migration since the 2000s.
Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh
Perilously close to rising sea levels and vulnerable to floods, erosion, and cyclones, Bangladesh is one of the top recipients of development aid earmarked for adaptation to climate change.
Doing journalism and telling the truth: Zahur Hossain Chowdhury’s ways
Among the editor-journalists in our country, one of the most famous names undoubtedly is Zahur Hossain Chowdhury (1922-1980).
Home and Displacement
The two words in the title are evocative, complex and slippery. What after all is “home”, and what does “displacement” really mean?
Guarding the silences
51 years after 1971, the birth of Bangladesh continues to evoke a range of emotions in Pakistan. There are civilians – poets,
Roquiah Sakhawat Hossein and Kazi Nazrul Islam
Roquiah Sakhawat Hossein was born in 1880, Kazi Nazrul Islam in 1899. Apart from their difference in gender, there could not have been more differences in the circumstances of their class and upbringing.
After the Storm
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad leafed through the stack of day-old newspapers in the officer’s mess, scanning headlines in Bengali, English, and Urdu.
Chronicling the other Bengal
Writers are drawn to the bleakest of places, Arundhati Roy once said, the way vultures are drawn to kills. I didn’t know the full import of the statement until I began to work on my book,
Probashi: Histories of the Bangladesh diaspora
The term diaspora originates from the ancient Greek dia speiro meaning a scattering of seeds.
Buddhist theatre in South Asia and beyond
Considerable research conducted by renowned Orientalists such as Moriz Winternitz,
