The recent wave of protests against racial injustices perpetrated against the Black community in America, inspired people of all colours across continents to proclaim "Black Lives Matter" in ...

Last week has been suddenly, and unexpectedly hard for us students of the Dhaka University History department, as two of our beloved teachers - Dr. K.M. Mohsin and Dr. A.B. Mahmood - passed ...

I vividly remember one of my most memorable trips I ever made. In the year 1955, I was part of the boy scout group who got the chance to travel to Europe and North America to the 10th World ...

Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh Imran Ahmed Siddiqui has said his country wants to boost ties with Bangladesh by exploring untapped potential and reviving all the old connections, n ...

Censorship is a big reality in many places including in Bangladesh. There are several levels of internal and external censorship. Many factors influence this including the nature of media ow ...

So, who or what was Oscar Fingal Flahertie Wills Wilde? Was he a poet, a prose-smith, a playwright, a classicist, a raconteur, a poseur, an aphorist, or simply a sensation for his, or may be ...

Our friend Wasi Ahmed called me to ask if we knew that Hasan Ferdous had been awarded the Bangla Academy Award for expatriate writers. It’s called the Syed Waliullah Award , after expa ...