Vargas Llosa’s crusade, a failure that seeded literary triumph, whispers a question: can stories outlive the frailty of those who write them?
SN Bose’s recruitment at DU was by the institution’s first vice-chancellor, PJ Hartog.
You didn’t expect someone like Andrew, who would have turned only 50 this December 16, to exit the world so abruptly.
Sigma Huda’s legacy for the empowerment of women, be it at the home, on the roads or in the courtroom, lives on.
Matia Chowdhury was usually seen donning a cotton saree and avoided luxurious attire.
As we commemorate Latifur Rahman, we miss his presence, warmth and personal touch in championing the cause of independent journalism.
It is difficult to put into words the contribution that Prof Azizur Rahman Khan made to academia and the nation.
Abed bhai defined a great and worthy leader as someone who always steps down to accommodate a worthier leader.
This is to redeem my pledge to my friend and classmate Ambassador Harun ur Rashid and write his obituary if I survive him.
It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, our Abed bhai.
I had my first encounter with Sir Fazle Hasan Abed in 1971 in Oxford. Abed called to inform me on the efforts by him and his group in London in support of Bangladesh’s liberation struggle.
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed once said to me, “small is beautiful.” He was a systems thinker before that term had even entered our consciousness.
It was in March 1979 when I met Sir Fazle Hasan Abed for the first time. He called me for a job interview. I met him at his modest office of the then Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) on Circular Road, Moghbazar.
Lord Campden is what his friends would call him, in the heady days that lie between youth and adulthood. He was a sharp dressing, cigar smoking, culture-loving European aesthete—a finance executive leading a privileged life in London, one of the great world cities.
Syed Mohammad Ali, popularly known as SM Ali, a distinguished journalist of Bangladesh, was born ninety-one years ago in this month—on December 5, to be specific—in a well-known literary family of Sylhet. His is a candid portrait of a journalist who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and writing gift to serving the nation.
Ajoy Roy has worn many hats throughout his life—as a bright scientist; professor of physics; human rights and secular activist; author; and perhaps
Sher-e-Bangla was an “institution” rather than an “individual”. So say his critics as well as his admirers.
Mohammad Shah, a well-known scholar and professor of history at University of Chittagong, died on September 29, 2019. After a fatal road accident at Hathazari, Chattogram, in which he was involved, he was put on life support, and on the eighth day in hospital, he breathed his last. What a tragedy! We, his students, couldn’t hold back our tears.
