Oh Firebird, Can You Ever Fly Away from Us!
“Are you sure he can make it? The Rupsha in March is not safe, nor are the Sundarbans.”
2y ago
Remembering Syed Shamsul Haq
On the occasion of the sixth death anniversary of Syed Shamsul Haq, Sabiha Huq writes on the versatile writer.
2y ago
Where Do Bangladeshi Writers Stand Today?
Approaching International Women’s Day 2022, the unnerving visual of the Ukrainian parliamentarian Kira Rudyk wielding a Kalashnikov that she finds both “scary and powerful,” is in reality a dynamic redefinition of women’s participation in national struggles.
2y ago
Lines from Fuller Road
This dawn is unvarying, lovely, peaceful, dewy, Morning sky has opened its store of breathing clouds,
3y ago
Why Are You Sad, O River?
Many of us still remember the year 1998 when Chitra Nadir Paare (Quiet Flows the Chitra) was released in Dhaka; with Afsana Mimi’s smiling face on the big posters around Dhaka University campus, the film became the talk of the town.
3y ago
Language Attitude Anxiety and Remedial Propositions: A New Approach to ELT
Asantha U Attanayake’s first exchanges with me were over e-mail. She was travelling across the Subcontinent to collect and develop materials for her forthcoming book.
4y ago
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part II)
SH: In 2011 you made a mega-documentary on 1971. What research on governmental policy documents went into the use of firearms by the Muktijoddhas as shown in your film, or as generally shown in films on the Liberation War?
5y ago
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part 1)
Tanvir Mokammel hails from Khulna, which is also the workplace of Prof. Sabiha Huq. This past February, when he was in Khulna for the launching of his partition novel Kirtinasha, the English Department of Khulna University became the privileged venue for a
5y ago
November 12, 2022
Oh Firebird, Can You Ever Fly Away from Us!
“Are you sure he can make it? The Rupsha in March is not safe, nor are the Sundarbans.”
September 27, 2022
Remembering Syed Shamsul Haq
On the occasion of the sixth death anniversary of Syed Shamsul Haq, Sabiha Huq writes on the versatile writer.
March 12, 2022
Where Do Bangladeshi Writers Stand Today?
Approaching International Women’s Day 2022, the unnerving visual of the Ukrainian parliamentarian Kira Rudyk wielding a Kalashnikov that she finds both “scary and powerful,” is in reality a dynamic redefinition of women’s participation in national struggles.
September 18, 2021
Lines from Fuller Road
This dawn is unvarying, lovely, peaceful, dewy, Morning sky has opened its store of breathing clouds,
July 10, 2021
Why Are You Sad, O River?
Many of us still remember the year 1998 when Chitra Nadir Paare (Quiet Flows the Chitra) was released in Dhaka; with Afsana Mimi’s smiling face on the big posters around Dhaka University campus, the film became the talk of the town.
March 7, 2020
Language Attitude Anxiety and Remedial Propositions: A New Approach to ELT
Asantha U Attanayake’s first exchanges with me were over e-mail. She was travelling across the Subcontinent to collect and develop materials for her forthcoming book.
September 7, 2019
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part II)
SH: In 2011 you made a mega-documentary on 1971. What research on governmental policy documents went into the use of firearms by the Muktijoddhas as shown in your film, or as generally shown in films on the Liberation War?
August 31, 2019
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part 1)
Tanvir Mokammel hails from Khulna, which is also the workplace of Prof. Sabiha Huq. This past February, when he was in Khulna for the launching of his partition novel Kirtinasha, the English Department of Khulna University became the privileged venue for a
January 19, 2019
Robert Mshengu Kavanagh: A Strong Voice against Apartheid and Oppression in Southern Africa
September 7, 2018; a big hall in Ibsenhuset (The Ibsen House; museum, archive and theatre dedicated to Henrik Ibsen in his birth town, Skien). An actors' session of
August 12, 2017
Fictionalizing an Unhappy World
“A single book could contain so much of everything, so much anguish and joy and love and war and death and life, so much of being
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