Badruddin Umar speaks / 'We must not lose focus from real political barriers'
Hasina took dynasty politics to levels we could not have ever imagined. What happened to Sheikh Mujib’s former residence was unfortunate. But I would say that Sheikh Hasina is partly responsible for the incident.
7 September 2025, 08:22 AM
How a UNO’s initiative is empowering a generation
Narsingdi’s Palash upazila is making a major impact on the education and future aspirations of its young citizens.
31 March 2023, 18:00 PM
INTERVIEW / ‘Books must make you see things differently': Sunandini Banerjee of Seagull Books on the art of book cover design
The process of designing a book is a combination of the practical and the creative.
21 September 2022, 18:00 PM
INTERVIEW / Carole Angier on writing the biography of WG Sebald
In Speak, Silence: In Search of W.G. Sebald (Bloomsbury, 2021), you write that the author’s British publisher, Christopher MacLehose, was in a dilemma to decide on Sebald’s genre of writing. After writing about his novel and his life for so long, how would you define Sebald’s genre?
6 April 2022, 18:00 PM
The Song of the Sea
One day, during the gruesome Calcutta riot (1946), a curious boy escaped the strict surveillance of his phupu (paternal aunt), Salema Khatun.
21 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Will Northbrook Hall fade away into history?
A hallmark of colonial-era architecture is struggling for survival in a corner of Dhaka, where a rich collection at a 137-year-old library is withering away into dust.
13 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Raghu Rai: The Man Behind the Lens
Indian photojournalist and member of the prestigious Magnum Photos, Raghu Rai, is better-known to Bangladeshis for the photos he took during our Liberation War in 1971.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Nimtoli Deuri becomes heritage museum
Nimtoli Deuri, a historic establishment in Dhaka built around 1765, has been turned into a heritage museum after restoration.
17 January 2019, 14:20 PM
Annihilation of an Oral language
What would people do if their language disappeared into oblivion? What would happen to a culture when its language is extinct? These questions might pop up in one's mind when s/he learned that Achik, the oral language of the Garos, is on the verge of extinction.
5 March 2015, 18:00 PM
The Lure of Storytelling
I am an accidental journalist, the one who sort of stumbled into the world of writing. I had a different dream as a kid.
27 February 2015, 10:53 AM
STORY OF THE BANGLA PRESS
A teacher of a small village was so overwhelmed by the atrocities of the landowners or zamindars of colonial India that he decided to write something in protest.
20 February 2015, 07:32 AM
SAVING THE CINEMATIC PAST
Following a dilapidated corridor, we reach a wooden door, and enter into a dark room. The light flickers for a bit when it is turned on before illuminating the tiny room with its brightness. A huge collection of film cans ranging from the earliest preserved films to the latest day films emerge in front of us.
6 February 2015, 11:15 AM