The proverbial practice of char dakhal has now extended to politics in the form of chandabaji (money extortion) as a metaphor for criminal greed.
Pre-occupation Palestine had, to use Anglo-American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness"
Transforming Ramadan from a month of fasting into one of feasting and then forcing women to cook extravagant meals ruins the purpose of the holy month.
The Zionist blueprint for Palestine resonates with the strategy of the workhouse authorities of Victorian England.
The victims are used as tools to spread fear about a specific community.
In 2006, Carter famously sparked an outcry when his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid" was published.
People of the Indian subcontinent, especially those in Bengal, never accepted European colonial rule.
Anti-Muslim media bigotry is so normalised that even Reuters initially circulated the false information that the slain lawyer was defending the Hindu leader.
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
Her message rings true for young anti-Zionist protesters who have been assaulted, arrested and subjected to smear campaigns for advocating for Palestinians.
If such writers lived in, and contributed to the literary legacy of, other countries, I will offer a compromise and propose a hyphenated identity.
it is difficult to put a number on those innumerable Bangladeshis who lived in fear or had a peripatetic life during Hasina-led regime.
I don’t think Hasina fell because of my writing. Then why do I continue writing?
The comparable patterns in the behaviour of Bashar al-Assad and Sheikh Hasina are staggering.
Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.
There are fundamental issues in the way academics in some countries are promoted to professorship.
Authorities in the US are eroding long-established principles and values in order to support Israel’s apartheid rule.
Time has not forgiven him for his racist and imperialist views
