
Azfar Hussain
Language, land, labour, and liberation: Reclaiming the radical roots of Ekushey
Every time the question of language surfaces it means that a series of other problems are coming to the fore.
20 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Beyond martyrdom and momentum: The matrix of the 1969 mass movement
In the history of Bangladesh’s formation and its war against the military-bureaucratic regime of Pakistan, the 1969 mass uprising is a significant milestone.
31 January 2025, 02:10 AM
Uprising, unity, and uncertainty: Power, protest, and politics in 2024
To speak of politics in 2024 is also to recall the entire history of political culture that has unfolded in Bangladesh since 1972.
30 December 2024, 02:00 AM
Our Victory Day and the questions of equality, justice, and human dignity
Bangladesh's hard-won independence, achieved through the Liberation War in 1971, remains the most defining political event in our history.
16 December 2024, 02:00 AM
Fakir Lalon Shah: Subjects, sites, and signs
Lalon is an exemplary anti-casteist, anti-patriarchal, anti-colonial figure in undivided Bengal in the19th century.
17 October 2024, 05:00 AM
89th Birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury: Bangladesh’s premier public intellectual
Serajul Islam Choudhury is the author of more than a hundred books and numerous essays.
22 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Labour, Life, and Liberation: The Emancipatory Significance of May Day
May Day is customarily credited with originating in 1886 from the eight-hour workday movement in the United States, but the Polish-German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg provides a distinct perspective on its genesis.
1 May 2024, 04:00 AM
Of poetry, philosophy, politics, and praxis
When we cease to have rhythm, we are dead. And we cease to have poetry, we are spiritually dead, one way or another.
21 March 2024, 02:00 AM
The Khapra Ward Day: The Moment and the Movement
April 24, 1950. It was a sunlit Monday morning. There were 39—according to some, 42—political prisoners in the famous Khapra Ward
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM