Jasim Uddin’s 1971
There has not been much research on to what extent the shadow of 1971 has been reflected in Bangla literature.
Bangladesh began badly: Remembering the roots of the impasse
Nationalism is not a political doctrine, not a programme. If you truly want your country to avoid regressing, halting, failing, it is necessary to march past national consciousness to political and social consciousness.
The origin of the om: Ahmed Sofa’s aura
With the death of Ahmed Sofa on July 28, 2001, Bangladesh (or modern Bengal in historical perspective) lost not simply one of its most original thinkers; it also marked the passing of an age.
Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947
This stain-splattered daybreak, this night-bitten dawn,
Mary Frances Dunham: In memoriam
The blood of the farmer is very sweet and everybody wants to taste it;
Was the Russian revolution a proletarian revolution?
What we call Russian revolution, from a long-term view, is a revolution in three episodes. Lenin called 1905 a "dress rehearsal" and, as Paul Dukes among others notes, he was the first to argue that October must follow on from February. So did Trotsky.
Bloodless genocide: The allegorical gaze of Ahmed Sofa
Ahmed Sofa, known in his lifetime as a firebrand, now appears to be no less memorable for his poems. I do not know yet how posterity is going to read him. But it is all apparent now.
Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature
Abdul Karim discovered that there existed also Muslim writers of quality in Bengali literature and, what's more, their quantity also is far from negligible. In diction their works, for instance, those of the 17th century lauraetes Kazi Daulat (1600-1638) or Syed Alaol (1607-1680) are no less 'elevated and dignified,' i.e., Sanskritized in measure than Bharatchandra Ray's (1712-1760) or Madhusudan Datta's (1824-1873) of later fame.
January 1, 2024
Jasim Uddin’s 1971
There has not been much research on to what extent the shadow of 1971 has been reflected in Bangla literature.
November 4, 2022
Bangladesh began badly: Remembering the roots of the impasse
Nationalism is not a political doctrine, not a programme. If you truly want your country to avoid regressing, halting, failing, it is necessary to march past national consciousness to political and social consciousness.
July 28, 2022
The origin of the om: Ahmed Sofa’s aura
With the death of Ahmed Sofa on July 28, 2001, Bangladesh (or modern Bengal in historical perspective) lost not simply one of its most original thinkers; it also marked the passing of an age.
February 21, 2022
Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947
This stain-splattered daybreak, this night-bitten dawn,
November 29, 2021
Mary Frances Dunham: In memoriam
The blood of the farmer is very sweet and everybody wants to taste it;
October 23, 2017
Was the Russian revolution a proletarian revolution?
What we call Russian revolution, from a long-term view, is a revolution in three episodes. Lenin called 1905 a "dress rehearsal" and, as Paul Dukes among others notes, he was the first to argue that October must follow on from February. So did Trotsky.
July 31, 2017
Bloodless genocide: The allegorical gaze of Ahmed Sofa
Ahmed Sofa, known in his lifetime as a firebrand, now appears to be no less memorable for his poems. I do not know yet how posterity is going to read him. But it is all apparent now.
October 10, 2015
Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature
Abdul Karim discovered that there existed also Muslim writers of quality in Bengali literature and, what's more, their quantity also is far from negligible. In diction their works, for instance, those of the 17th century lauraetes Kazi Daulat (1600-1638) or Syed Alaol (1607-1680) are no less 'elevated and dignified,' i.e., Sanskritized in measure than Bharatchandra Ray's (1712-1760) or Madhusudan Datta's (1824-1873) of later fame.
August 29, 2015
Reading Nazrul Islam after Walter Benjamin
‘Early in his life, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the most notable Muslim poet of modern Bengal, edited and published a weekly Bengali journal named Dhumketu, the Comet.
July 28, 2015
AHMED SOFA IN WEIMAR: A Bangali tribute to Goethe
Ahmed Sofa, as his mentor Abdur Razzaq once put it, “is an established literary figure of Bangladesh.”
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