Dhaka, Nov. 6 -- Advocate Tapan Lahiri is not a familiar name in Bangladesh. But he was well-known in Adra, in West Bengal's Purulia district, where he died of Covid in November 2020. This is the sixt... Read More
Bangladesh, Oct. 30 -- Inever had the privilege of meeting freedom fighter Manik Pashari, who has just died at 87. So, I looked him up on the Internet. Here is what I found. "Manik Pashari (1939 - Oc... Read More
Bangladesh, Sept. 25 -- In her 1963 book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, the political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase "banality of evil" to describe how mind-boggli... Read More
Nepal, Sept. 4 -- Runa Khan, this year's Bangladeshi recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, has given an interview to Nilima Jahan of The Daily Star. It conta... Read More