Dhaka, Dec. 4 -- My elder brother, James, who was born in 1943 with a genetic chromosomal abnormality known as Down Syndrome, and who had a severe learning disability, died in 1999 in the UK as a resu... Read More
Dhaka, Nov. 6 -- Nov 12 is the 55th anniversary of the cyclone of 1970, which took the lives of at least 500,000 people of the coastal areas of Bangladesh. In October of that year, there had been a sm... Read More
Dhaka, Oct. 22 -- The Testimony of Sixty on the Crisis in Bengal carried statements and articles written by famous figures such as Mother Teresa and Senator Edward Kennedy, along with well-known journ... Read More
Dhaka, Sept. 19 -- A few evenings ago I was sitting in the Shahabuddin Park, deep in thought. My hands were holding either side of my face when an elderly man came up and put his hand on my shoulder a... Read More