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How a UNO’s initiative is empowering a generation

Narsingdi’s Palash upazila is making a major impact on the education and future aspirations of its young citizens.

2y ago

‘Books must make you see things differently': Sunandini Banerjee of Seagull Books on the art of book cover design

The process of designing a book is a combination of the practical and the creative.

2y ago

Carole Angier on writing the biography of WG Sebald

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?

3y ago

The Song of the Sea

One day, during the gruesome Calcutta riot (1946), a curious boy escaped the strict surveillance of his phupu (paternal aunt), Salema Khatun.

5y ago

Will Northbrook Hall fade away into history?

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.

6y ago

Raghu Rai: The Man Behind the Lens

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.

6y ago

Nimtoli Deuri becomes heritage museum

Nimtoli Deuri, a historic establishment in Dhaka built around 1765, has been turned into a heritage museum after restoration.

6y ago

A leader ahead of his time

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.

6y ago
May 8, 2015
May 8, 2015

NARRATING EVIL

Let's begin the story with a clichéd and somewhat banal question-- did Felani, a 15- year- old girl who was shot dead by the Indian

May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015

HUMILIATED AND INSULTED

Rina Akther, a 16 year-old domestic worker begins her day at the break of dawn.

April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015

‘PUTHI’ IN THE WAKE OF NATIONALIST MOVEMENT

Before the advent of modernism in undivided South Asia, puthi was the only source of entertainment. Be it a feudal lord or a farmer,

April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015

Let there be light

AT the beginning of the industrial revolution, a farmer was also able to make shoes, and the women spent their days making handmade pottery and spinning yarn or cloth.

April 17, 2015
April 17, 2015

In the Wake of Disaster

After a three-month-long countrywide shutdown, the situation has considerably improved in the last few weeks.

April 3, 2015
April 3, 2015

Three Years Later…

A sewing machine and a dozen colorful threads still give hope and strength to labour leader Aminul Islam's family, to survive.

March 20, 2015
March 20, 2015

SAVING RAIN WATER

South Asia has a long drawn history of rain water harvesting.

March 13, 2015
March 13, 2015

the Mystic Saint

Amra achi polapan, Gazi ache nigahman Shire Ganga dariya Panch Pir, Badr Badr Badr

March 6, 2015
March 6, 2015

AN ENTREPRENEUR'S TALE

Ivy Hasan, an entrepreneur and artist, has gone out of her way to fulfill her promise of upholding the character of our culture and nation.

March 6, 2015
March 6, 2015

Annihilation of an Oral language

What would people do if their language disappeared into oblivion? What would happen to a culture when its language is extinct? These questions might pop up in one's mind when s/he learned that Achik, the oral language of the Garos, is on the verge of extinction.