A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story
30 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Early North Bengal: A (re-)creation and a lone journey
30 November 2025, 02:00 AM
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My experience as an editor of a Bangla magazine
28 November 2025, 08:21 AM
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‘Struggle’: Noazesh Ahmed and his first masterpiece
24 November 2025, 08:08 AM
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Birth Centenary / Remembering Munier Bhai
23 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Photographing Muslim women: How Sufia Kamal broke the camera taboo
20 November 2025, 07:28 AM
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Dhaka’s forgotten WWII story: What soldiers feared more than Japanese bullets
18 November 2025, 10:13 AM
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Bhashani and the gayebi janazah of 1968: A photographic history
17 November 2025, 09:00 AM
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Chandecan and Codovascam / Two forgotten kingdoms of Bengal
16 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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‘Let democracy be free’: The image that shook a dictator
10 November 2025, 09:00 AM
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A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story
In April 1971, at the age of 24, Val Harding was volunteering as a nurse at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, when she first heard of the atrocities on March 25 in Dhaka and the fight for the Liberation of Bangladesh.
30 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Early North Bengal: A (re-)creation and a lone journey
Naturally, ENB, which was mentioned as Puṇḍravardhana-bhukti in the Gupta epigraphs, remained mostly understudied.
30 November 2025, 02:00 AM
My experience as an editor of a Bangla magazine
We wanted Edesh-Ekal to say something to all citizens and at the same time to maintain a strong focus on women and their problems
28 November 2025, 08:21 AM
‘Struggle’: Noazesh Ahmed and his first masterpiece
All his life, Noazesh remained immersed in the enchantment of art.
24 November 2025, 08:08 AM
Remembering Munier Bhai
Munier Chowdhury's extraordinary contributions—not only through his own work but also by inspiring others and engaging in dialogue—made him unique.
23 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Photographing Muslim women: How Sufia Kamal broke the camera taboo
Sufia herself faced no trouble for having her photograph printed, but her poem did create difficulties.
20 November 2025, 07:28 AM
Dhaka’s forgotten WWII story: What soldiers feared more than Japanese bullets
The US soldiers and Allied crews who passed through Dhaka during the war ended up fighting two battles at once
18 November 2025, 10:13 AM
Bhashani and the gayebi janazah of 1968: A photographic history
The atmosphere was heavy and tense. It seemed unlikely that people would turn up for the gayebi janazah.
17 November 2025, 09:00 AM
Two forgotten kingdoms of Bengal
Maps are regarded as affirmative visual documents, permanently fixing places, distances, and itineraries in our minds. Yet we often forget that early modern maps were subjective texts, only approximating places.
16 November 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Let democracy be free’: The image that shook a dictator
After the photo’s publication, government intelligence officers began searching for Pavel Rahman.
10 November 2025, 09:00 AM
The Bhola Cyclone and the making of Bangladesh
Beyond its tragic human cost, the Bhola Cyclone likely had political consequences—within a year, a new nation was born.
9 November 2025, 18:00 PM
The Pain of Water
A lyrical meditation on Titash Ekti Nodir Naam, where Mallabarman and Ghatak intertwine rivers, memory, and Bengal’s fractured history.
4 November 2025, 09:51 AM
“Why should I leave?” The Partition in the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak
The agony over Partition-related uprootings from home and homeland suffuses Ghatak's cinema.
3 November 2025, 18:00 PM
The Last Republican
Tajuddin’s politics was not about quick wins or symbolic gestures
3 November 2025, 09:46 AM
Reading power: How everyday texts shaped life under the British Empire
At the heart of Required Reading are forgotten readers from the past.
28 October 2025, 10:46 AM
Why was Sher-e-Bangla so popular?
What made Sher-e-Bangla so popular among the masses of Bengal?
27 October 2025, 11:03 AM
The dawn of Islamic songs in Bengal
Though Muslims of undivided Bengal used to view music and dance as Hindu traditions and distanced themselves from them, they warmly embraced Abbasuddin's Islamic songs written by Kazi Nazrul Islam.
26 October 2025, 18:00 PM
My discovery of Sher-e-Bangla
The discovery of these rare documents and letters sent to A. K. Fazlul Huq offers deeper insights into history, verifying past accounts and vividly bringing the story of the United Front election to life.
25 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Sher-e-Bangla and his political rivals
The most aggressive efforts to sideline him and remove him from the Chief Minister's office came from Suhrawardy.
25 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The thrills of Rakib Hasan
Rakib Hasan took Western adventure tales and breathed into them a Bangladeshi heart.
23 October 2025, 08:44 AM