The first Partition of India in 1947, which represented also the second partition of Bengal after the reversal of its first division in 1905, was marked by the epic outflow of Hindus from Ea ...

A flash of gold from the mud of Hakaluki haor lifted our spirit as soon as we began our survey of waterbirds on a gloomy February morning. On the mud stood a lonely bird with a lovely golden ...

The odd sight of a senior police officer giving a victory sign after he has been jailed for being part of a corruption case that involved an official of the ACC is very illustrative. Mizan, ...

My apartment building in Kyiv is on the outskirts of the city, near a pine forest. There is no metro line in the area. That means there is no "principal bomb shelter" as the city mayor, Vita ...

Language has always been part of politics in South Asia. In societies where caste and language has a direct connection, it’s obvious that the elite class devised its tools rather well. ...

Shamshada was engrossed in conversation after lunch at her cousins’ house in 2016, when, all of a sudden, she thought the room was filling with smoke. The 40-year-old stood up and s ...

Last month a piece of news of counterfeit coins of East India Company was published in the national dailies. The news did not get much importance as it got the space in the page 2 with a sin ...