After the Storm
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad leafed through the stack of day-old newspapers in the officer’s mess, scanning headlines in Bengali, English, and Urdu.
Chronicling the other Bengal
Writers are drawn to the bleakest of places, Arundhati Roy once said, the way vultures are drawn to kills. I didn’t know the full import of the statement until I began to work on my book,
Probashi: Histories of the Bangladesh diaspora
The term diaspora originates from the ancient Greek dia speiro meaning a scattering of seeds.
50 Years of Bangladeshi Advertising
The history of advertising in Bengal is as old as the history of modern print media in Asia. The first Asian newspaper -- The Calcutta General Advertiser -- was published from the British Bengal in 1780.
Where do the ‘disappeared’ disappear to?
While their families search every alleyway, survivors say that they lived right around the corner in the capital city.
‘Bulbuli’: Nazrul’s music for future listeners?
We were at the dinner table. My wife asked if I had seen Bulbuli, the Coke Studio Bangla song. Till then I hadn’t. The upload was only a few days old.
After the Storm
Hafiz Uddin Ahmad leafed through the stack of day-old newspapers in the officer’s mess, scanning headlines in Bengali, English, and Urdu.
Chronicling the other Bengal
Writers are drawn to the bleakest of places, Arundhati Roy once said, the way vultures are drawn to kills. I didn’t know the full import of the statement until I began to work on my book,
Probashi: Histories of the Bangladesh diaspora
The term diaspora originates from the ancient Greek dia speiro meaning a scattering of seeds.
Buddhist theatre in South Asia and beyond
Considerable research conducted by renowned Orientalists such as Moriz Winternitz,
Syed Waliullah in Paris
It is well-known that Bangla literature took a new turn in the 1940s. Following the revolutionary work of Kazi Nazrul Islam, we got four powerful poets among Bangalee Muslims: Farrukh Ahmad,
Marc Riboud’s Bangladesh 1971: Mourning and Morning
Marc Riboud (1923-2016), one of the first generation of Magnum photographers, was born in Lyon, France.
Ethical encounters: A look into women, war, and cinema in Bangladesh
A modern remake of Ajoy Kar’s 1961 film Saptapodi, Shameem Akhtar’s film Rina Brown (2017) unfolds intimate geographies of love and loss among individuals from India, and West and East Pakistan.
Love Me Do: Sixty years ago, the Beatles began to play
Sixty years ago, John, Paul, George, and Ringo released their first single, Love Me Do, on October 5, 1962. It was a Parlophone 7-inch 45rpm with the seal 45-R 4949.
Gandhi’s sojourn in Noakhali
There are many ways a nation’s history can be understood, for it has many points, opinions, and arguments depending on the sources one can reach.
Student politics in private universities: To be or not to be …
On September 2, the student front of a political party announced its intention to form committees in 16 private universities. It was greeted with apprehension and alarm.