May 6, 2018
Remembering freedom fighter Lt. Col. Quazi Nooruzzaman, B.U. (declined)
Every year around this time, I get a phone call from someone or the other of the loose fraternity of Sector 7 veterans to remind me that May 6 is Lieutenant Colonel Quazi Nooruzzaman's death anniversary; he passed away in 2011.
March 24, 2018
August 26, 2017
August 25, 2017
After the holocaust: Partition and Bangladeshi literature
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 has become indissolubly linked to horrific, haunting images of armed gangs or mobs attacking helpless groups of men, women and children trying to cross a border that had just been scratched on the map. Literature registers the shock in works that make harrowing reading.
August 5, 2017
June 17, 2017
June 17, 2017
June 10, 2017
April 1, 2017
January 21, 2017
Michael Madhusudan Dutt: A Birthday Tribute
We celebrate Michael Madhusudan Dutt's birthday on 25 January, but we cannot be certain that this is absolutely accurate, just as we