Azfar Hussain

Dr Azfar Hussain is director of the graduate programme in social innovation and professor of integrative/interdisciplinary studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, US. He is also summer distinguished professor of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and vice-president of US-based Global Center for Advanced Studies.

Interrogating power, envisioning emancipation

His work does not merely interpret the world; it is involved in the struggle to change it.

1m ago

Language, land, labour, and liberation: Reclaiming the radical roots of Ekushey

Every time the question of language surfaces it means that a series of other problems are coming to the fore.

5m ago

Beyond martyrdom and momentum: The matrix of the 1969 mass movement

In the history of Bangladesh’s formation and its war against the military-bureaucratic regime of Pakistan, the 1969 mass uprising is a significant milestone.

6m ago

Uprising, unity, and uncertainty: Power, protest, and politics in 2024

To speak of politics in 2024 is also to recall the entire history of political culture that has unfolded in Bangladesh since 1972.

7m ago

Our Victory Day and the questions of equality, justice, and human dignity

Bangladesh's hard-won independence, achieved through the Liberation War in 1971, remains the most defining political event in our history.

7m ago

Fakir Lalon Shah: Subjects, sites, and signs

Lalon is an exemplary anti-casteist, anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial figure in undivided Bengal in the19th century.

9m ago

89th Birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury: Bangladesh’s premier public intellectual

Serajul Islam Choudhury is the author of more than a hundred books and numerous essays.

1y ago

Labour, Life, and Liberation: The Emancipatory Significance of May Day

May Day is customarily credited with originating in 1886 from the eight-hour workday movement in the United States, but the Polish-German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg provides a distinct perspective on its genesis.

1y ago
June 4, 2016
June 4, 2016

Of Things

Things are material in the hardest sense of the term. Things have shapes, textures, structures, and even timbres. Things have tones,

April 23, 2016
April 23, 2016

The Khapra Ward Day: The Moment and the Movement

April 24, 1950. It was a sunlit Monday morning. There were 39—according to some, 42—political prisoners in the famous Khapra Ward

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