Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury

This kind of violence is unheard of

Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury yesterday said the brutal suppression of dissent at universities is alarming because these institutions are supposed to nurture free speech.

‘No matter who wins the election, people will lose'

Eminent thinker and writer Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury, in this interview with Badiuzzaman Bay of The Daily Star, outlines his views about the current state of leftist politics, the upcoming election, and the future of politics and youth leadership in Bangladesh.

Serajul Islam Choudhury: A multi-dimensional teacher

If “life is lived forward but understood backward”—as the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once put it—Choudhury can look back and easily say in the words of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet: “This is how you must love the earth/so you can say 'I have lived.'”

80TH BIRTHDAY OF SERAJUL ISLAM CHOUDHURY / Bangladesh's foremost oppositional intellectual

Today - June 23 - marks the 80th birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury. He was my teacher in the English Department of Dhaka University.

Complaint against challengers of state religion binned

A Dhaka court rejects a complaint brought against challengers of state religion Islam.

“The country is thriving on the exploitation of the poor.”

Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury is a man of diverse traits. He is a well-known, much revered voice that speaks in support of human rights, freedom of expression, environmental protection, social justice and anti-corruption. He has had a long career of teaching at the Department of English Language and Literature at Dhaka University.

October 8, 2019
October 8, 2019

This kind of violence is unheard of

Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury yesterday said the brutal suppression of dissent at universities is alarming because these institutions are supposed to nurture free speech.

November 12, 2018
November 12, 2018

‘No matter who wins the election, people will lose'

Eminent thinker and writer Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury, in this interview with Badiuzzaman Bay of The Daily Star, outlines his views about the current state of leftist politics, the upcoming election, and the future of politics and youth leadership in Bangladesh.

June 23, 2017
June 23, 2017

Serajul Islam Choudhury: A multi-dimensional teacher

If “life is lived forward but understood backward”—as the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once put it—Choudhury can look back and easily say in the words of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet: “This is how you must love the earth/so you can say 'I have lived.'”

June 23, 2016
June 23, 2016

Bangladesh's foremost oppositional intellectual

Today - June 23 - marks the 80th birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury. He was my teacher in the English Department of Dhaka University.

June 12, 2016
June 12, 2016

Complaint against challengers of state religion binned

A Dhaka court rejects a complaint brought against challengers of state religion Islam.

June 23, 2015
June 23, 2015

“The country is thriving on the exploitation of the poor.”

Professor Serajul Islam Choudhury is a man of diverse traits. He is a well-known, much revered voice that speaks in support of human rights, freedom of expression, environmental protection, social justice and anti-corruption. He has had a long career of teaching at the Department of English Language and Literature at Dhaka University.