Bangladesh, July 3 -- An article by Mohammad Habib Reza, "Reading Bengal beyond religious boundaries", appeared in The Daily Star on June 23, 2026. The writer is an architect, architectural historian ... Read More
Dhaka, May 15 -- Beniapukur in Kolkata is a largely Muslim area, one of several minority ghettos that have been described as a "territorialised form of hyper visibility and containment". What this mea... Read More
Bangladesh, May 8 -- India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has just won its first election in West Bengal. It has dislodged the All-India Trinamool Congress (TMC) from 15 years... Read More
Bangladesh, May 1 -- An observation by Amartya Sen has become a cultural and political aphorism. In his book, The Argumentative Indian, Sen quotes from a poem by Raja Rammohun Roy to define the true h... Read More
Dhaka, May 1 -- An observation by Amartya Sen has become a cultural and political aphorism. In his book, The Argumentative Indian, Sen quotes from a poem by Raja Rammohun Roy to define the true horror... Read More
Bangladesh, April 24 -- The following news item appeared in Prothom Alo English on April 21. I quote from it: "A clash broke out between activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Islami Chhatra Shibir... Read More
Bangladesh, April 17 -- An article by the eminent Bengali historian Jayanta Sengupta, published in the Indian newspaper, The Telegraph, this week caught my eye and held it for a long, long while. Rare... Read More