The book traces the transformative impact that the opium trade had on India, China, Britain and the United States, with profound long-term consequences for the birth of the modern world, and of contemporary globalism.

Both the Dhaka Lit Fest and Ekushey Boi Mela offer sobering insights into the underlying socioeconomic challenges that have hamstrung Bangla publishing.

Ulpur village served as the seat of the Zamindari and Jagir of the Basu Roy Chowdhury family.

The book explores our inability at the level of literature, history, and politics to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.