Manzoorul Abedin

Dining at Oxbridge: “Formal”, please

I was a little anxious. It was only the second day of my life at the University of Cambridge, and I was already bombarded with instructions on how to dine.

Un-Romanticising the Colonial History

Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The

Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?

“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction and non-fiction” (Claire Battershill in “No One Wants Biography”).

On Art and the Artiste –

Twenty years ago—back in 1997—I was a first-year undergraduate studying English literature at the University of Dhaka when

September 7, 2023
September 7, 2023

Dining at Oxbridge: “Formal”, please

I was a little anxious. It was only the second day of my life at the University of Cambridge, and I was already bombarded with instructions on how to dine.

March 17, 2018
March 17, 2018

Un-Romanticising the Colonial History

Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The

February 3, 2018
February 3, 2018

Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?

“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction and non-fiction” (Claire Battershill in “No One Wants Biography”).

August 12, 2017
August 12, 2017

On Art and the Artiste –

Twenty years ago—back in 1997—I was a first-year undergraduate studying English literature at the University of Dhaka when

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