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