Dhaka, April 24 -- Have we sometimes wondered why we should be referring to places and institutions in our country through associating them with places and institutions abroad? For ages there have be... Read More
Dhaka, April 4 -- April is the cruellest month, as T S Eliot put it. And then there was Robert Browning who longed to be in England in April. William Shakespeare, in his jocular way, had this to place... Read More
Dhaka, April 2 -- I have often asked myself why Justice S M Murshed went into a state of silence in the 1970s. And I have not yet been able to respond to that query. But why do I raise the question in... Read More
Dhaka, March 27 -- So there will be a rematch of Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the American presidential election come November. It will not be a pretty sight, or an inspiring one. And, yes, there is ... Read More
Dhaka, March 21 -- Nothing breaks the heart so much as the tears of a young woman suddenly bereft of her husband. Nothing leaves a gash in the soul as much as the repressed suffering of a woman who lo... Read More
Dhaka, March 6 -- A day before 7 March fifty-three years ago, as a student of Senior Cambridge in distant Quetta, Balochistan, where our family lived owing to my father's posting in the garrison town,... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 28 -- Ramadan will be here soon, a season which will test Muslims' religiosity through the month of fasting. For Muslim families in Bangladesh, poor as well as middle class, it will once a... Read More