Narsingdi’s Palash upazila is making a major impact on the education and future aspirations of its young citizens.
The process of designing a book is a combination of the practical and the creative.
In Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald (Bloomsbury, 2021), you write that the author’s British publisher, Christopher MacLehose, was in a dilemma to decide on Sebald’s genre of writing. After writing about his novel and his life for so long, how would you define Sebald’s genre?
One day, during the gruesome Calcutta riot (1946), a curious boy escaped the strict surveillance of his phupu (paternal aunt), Salema Khatun.
A hallmark of colonial-era architecture is struggling for survival in a corner of Dhaka, where a rich collection at a 137-year-old library is withering away into dust.
Indian photojournalist and member of the prestigious Magnum Photos, Raghu Rai, is better-known to Bangladeshis for the photos he took during our Liberation War in 1971.
Nimtoli Deuri, a historic establishment in Dhaka built around 1765, has been turned into a heritage museum after restoration.
Tajuddin came much before his time and we are not yet ready to understand him properly.” Professor Sardar Fazlul Karim's famous words aptly describe the key architect of Bangladesh's Liberation War. In the physical absence of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Tajuddin Ahmad was the key actor, who led the war with remarkable diplomacy to achieve freedom from the Pakistani colonial occupation.
When I took out Sir Lepel Griffin's Rulers of India from a shelf of the Northbrook Hall, I was shocked to see the condition of this
The Hatirjheel-Begunbari Lake area, with its open spaces, is steadily losing its charm and beauty due to the unbearable stench of the contaminated lake, coupled with the sight and smell of the garbage heaped in it. Suffocating odour seeping out from the water,
With every passing day, the stench and pollution of the Hatirjheel-Begunbari Lake seems to be getting worse. Wastes of all kinds are
A few years ago, popular actor Mosharraf Karim played the role of a transgender, also known as ‘Hijra’, in a Television drama called ‘Chaiya Chaiya’.
Kherokhata or a sketchbook is more of a personal thought processing space than just a piece of notebook.
The tidal river Halda of Chittagong is one of the most unique natural carp breeding grounds in the whole world. Carp fish (Catla, Ruhi, Calbaus and Mrigayel) arrive here from different channels to release eggs.
Torrential rain-triggered landslides and deaths are nothing new to us. Every year, at the beginning of the rainy season, the port city is forced to face the same catastrophe.
Nuheen Khan, with his small group of volunteers, started working with the Dalit community in Natore in 2012. Running a project that involves the Dalit community was not easy to do. People's attitudes toward the subaltern community has always fallen under a stereotype.
In the last 19 years, the Kalpana Chakma abduction case has been investigated several times. What might sound ridiculous is that the deadline for submission of the investigation report was reset 23 times.
“Dada, Dada, mahre basa!” – the last words Kalindi Kumar Chakma heard from his sister after she was taken away from his side.
