The thrills of Rakib Hasan
23 October 2025, 08:44 AM
How Bengal discovered Japan: A 150-year chronicle
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Abul Hashim’s Bangalistaan
13 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Baba Allauddin Khan and the making of a musical lineage
8 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Meghnad Saha, the Dhaka-born scientist who dreamed a technological future
6 October 2025, 10:52 AM
DHAKA, THE CITY OF ELEPHANTS / The lost history of Pilkhana’s elephant depot
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Dhaka’s Forgotten WWII Story: Spielberg’s Father and the Bridge Busters
30 September 2025, 09:26 AM
156th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi / Gandhi’s search for harmony in Noakhali
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Sandwip’s forgotten wars
21 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Fragments of resistance: The counter-archive of Mohammad Idrish
15 September 2025, 13:58 PM
The thrills of Rakib Hasan
Rakib Hasan took Western adventure tales and breathed into them a Bangladeshi heart.
23 October 2025, 08:44 AM
How Bengal discovered Japan: A 150-year chronicle
As Asia's first Nobel laureate, Tagore's visit to Japan created an unprecedented stir among the Japanese people.
19 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Abul Hashim’s Bangalistaan
Hashim believed that ethnically driven societies with a common language would benefit from using religion as a tool for political self-representation rather than relegating it to the private realm.
13 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Baba Allauddin Khan and the making of a musical lineage
He aspired after Hindu-Muslim unity and a healthy synthesis of all faiths and creeds.
8 October 2025, 02:00 AM
Meghnad Saha, the Dhaka-born scientist who dreamed a technological future
Very few scientists in the entire world would think about moving in the direction Saha had ventured for his country
6 October 2025, 10:52 AM
The lost history of Pilkhana’s elephant depot
In the seventeenth century, Dhaka was among the most prosperous cities of eastern India, home to nearly nine lakh people.
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Dhaka’s Forgotten WWII Story: Spielberg’s Father and the Bridge Busters
When we think of World War II, Dhaka rarely enters the conversation.
30 September 2025, 09:26 AM
Gandhi’s search for harmony in Noakhali
From the period of his lifetime and particularly in the aftermath of his assassination, Gandhi’s philosophies have been the subject of deep scholarly discussion.
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Sandwip’s forgotten wars
When the Dutch, Portuguese, Mughals, and Arakanese fought over a tiny island
21 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Fragments of resistance: The counter-archive of Mohammad Idrish
To understand Idrish is to approach it as more than a documentary. It is a meditation on how cinema can bear witness, reactivate memory, and ignite resistance. The film stands at a crossroads where the insights of critical thinkers illuminate its form and force.
15 September 2025, 13:58 PM
Why Zahir Raihan matters more than ever after the August uprising
When a colonised people rises to claim sovereignty, culture is never a bystander.
15 September 2025, 09:41 AM
The double edge of rebellion: Nepal reshaping the grammar of politics
Nepal's federal, secular, inclusive republic—though crippled by corruption—remains a historic achievement.
14 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Starlink in Gaza: Humanitarian Lifeline or Military Asset?
This tension between Starlink’s dual role as technological infrastructure and as a geopolitical tool came into stark reality in Gaza.
9 September 2025, 09:11 AM
Thus spoke Suhrawardy
For many centuries before partition and independence in I947 the type of government experienced by the peoples of the subcontinent of Asia was imposed by right of conquest; it lacked the ingredient of consent.
8 September 2025, 08:06 AM
Suhrawardy: A statesman of democracy
I first came to know Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in the formative years of my education and legal career. Mr Suhrawardy was a mentor, a role model, and an inspiration, both as a lawyer and a politician.
8 September 2025, 07:30 AM
Faultlines of freedom: The complex ties of Jinnah, Suhrawardy and Gandhi
Suhrawardy’s popularity, unlike Jinnah’s, was rooted primarily in the regional sphere, though he enjoyed a strong base of mass support. Jinnah’s emergence as the architect of Pakistan owed considerably to Suhrawardy’s efforts, yet Suhrawardy, in turn, received comparatively little support from Jinnah.
8 September 2025, 07:16 AM
Badruddin Umar: A tribute
Teacher, comrade, and lifelong revolutionary Badruddin Umar (20 December 1931 – 7 September 2025) is no more. We offer him our deepest respect and love. Alongside this, on behalf of the people of Bangladesh, we convey our gratitude — for he devoted his entire life, thought, and activism to the cause of the people.
7 September 2025, 18:00 PM
'We must not lose focus from real political barriers'
Hasina took dynasty politics to levels we could not have ever imagined. What happened to Sheikh Mujib’s former residence was unfortunate. But I would say that Sheikh Hasina is partly responsible for the incident.
7 September 2025, 08:22 AM
The Secret Deal that Carved Up the Middle East
In the annals of modern Middle Eastern history, few documents have cast a longer or darker shadow than the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916.
2 September 2025, 10:37 AM
Forbidden Nazrul
Both Bengals are grappling with intense periods of unrest. While the political events unfolding in these two lands may not align directly, they share one significant commonality: distrust.
31 August 2025, 18:00 PM