January 18, 2022
The High Court said they were Bangladeshis
The members of camp-dwelling Urdu-speaking community (CDUSC) are both baffled and dismayed over a series of recent decisions by the Bangladesh government.
December 27, 2021
The indefatigable public intellectual and political mobiliser
A small incident took place at a school in Burdwan in 1944. A class teacher of Grade 7 was wrongly reprimanding a student, accusing him of stacking all the high benches of the classroom against the short ones the previous evening, when a lanky boy stood up and said, “It was not Abanti, it was me.” Impressed by the boy’s moral courage, the teacher excused him.
December 18, 2021
International Migrants Day: Reintegration must be a pillar of labour migration
December 18 marks the International Migrants Day.
December 10, 2021
Human Rights Day: Why the chasm between state commitments and access to rights?
December 10 marks the Human Rights Day (HRD).
October 14, 2021
We must stand firm against incursions into academic freedom
What is academic freedom? Why is academic freedom a necessary condition for educational institutions?
September 28, 2021
World News Day: In defence of the messenger
Today, September 28, is observed globally as World News Day.
August 30, 2021
No flowers for the birthday boy
December 2, 2013 was the birthday of Mahfuzur Rahman’s—a Chhatra Dal leader of Bangshal—son. Mahfuz promised his son that he would bring him flowers on the occasion and went out to buy flowers in Shahbagh.
August 26, 2021
The desperate plight of workers in pandemic
They work in mills and factories, also under tin sheds in squalid conditions. They begin their long days commuting in crammed public transport vehicles or taking long walks, braving monsoon rain or summer heat.
July 27, 2021
The case for unfettered internet freedom
As human beings, we enjoy the right to think and express ourselves.
July 5, 2021
Covid reality, Hindutva and the state of academic freedom
“The situation is alarming, ghastly and uncertain. Deaths all around and institutions seem to be collapsing fast. More seriously, there is no able political head who can lead the nation at this stage of serious crisis”.