Nizamuddin Ahmed

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray

It is important to remember that every person's job is important to that person and to that person's near and dear ones. No one sweats to sell peanuts on the pavement for entertainment.

Salaam from the people, yes people, whom you almost ran over, whom you shoved off the footpath, beeped to deafness and pushed from behind as they sat on rickshaws.

The meaning of the word bannijjo is nowhere more profound than at the annual fair that has returned habitually to the Sher-e-Bangla

The valiant role of police in general in our War of Liberation, the distinctive valour with which some of them fought for the cause of our

Since long I have been intrigued by Desmond Morris's Manwatching (1977), admittedly one of the few books that I have gone through,

There is no country in the world that gives away more than 33 crore books on New Year's Day, and that too for free, not even in the

An awfully successful real estate mogul, an outrageously prosperous business magnate, a terribly popular TV host, a filthily rich golf

Things appeared relatively calm one Wednesday morning. Officials were screening passengers and baggage. Children were running

Despite the rising human debris in Syria, as UK joins the posse bombing 'only' military targets by consent of its parliament albeit divided...

Perhaps the Pakistanis need reminding that whereas a full-fledged military operation of the savagest brutality could not silence unarmed Bangalees, such hollow attempts of frail intimidation could not even tickle us.

There was an outcry on Facebook the past week about why the infectious social platform was blatantly discriminating between bloodshed in Beirut on Thursday and Paris the day after, both ISIS-orchestrated.

You have heard of G-11, and may have wondered how outlandish that can be. How many layers of 'economicsphere' separate us and them?

Despite endless untiring songs about bringing equality for all humanity (for instance, One World One Song, Dionne Warwick), even...

Use an interpreter. But, never let your counterpart have the upper hand by coaxing you to speak in his tongue in your own country. Your pride, your history, your very being should refrain you from doing that.

There is remembrance of the 9000-plus dead, yet there is an underlying resolve among the people. The dead shall not rise for sure, but

Not that I am very keen, except maybe for a selfie with the doorman to the envy of my Facebook friends, I have over the past week discovered a sure way to be invited to the White House; more so because of Mark Zuckerberg's interest in the most ridiculous of science-related stories.

Love him or not, you cannot but be awestruck at the sheer bluntness, call it lack of guile, of Suranjit Sengupta for his candid pronouncement to government employees within 24 hours of their pay hike.

When India denied us our much-needed legitimate river water, they succumbed to the West Bengal logic that water was in short supply across the border, but stopping migration of excess cows defies all rationality.

The name Barrack Obama will remain etched in history as the first black President of the United States (POTUS). Soon, with a little more help from Donald Trump (Conservative/Independent), the US might be having its first woman president.