Dhaka, April 18 -- Part 1 Perhaps the most popular poet in the Bengali speaking world is Sukumar Roy. It's not a rhetorical statement but of simple demography. Just about every middle class child rea... Read More
Dhaka, April 11 -- I like to lead a touch of itinerant life, never really going for a career path. I get involved in many kinds of work and they all stick to me, nothing really is lost. So I end up do... Read More
Dhaka, April 4 -- Dhaka Courier and UNB Editor-in-Chief and my old friend Enayet wanted to publish a book on Lalon. He had already collected an article by friend Haider Ali Khan, a Professor at Denver... Read More
Dhaka, March 28 -- Most narratives and discussions of 1971 begin and end with the State. That means it goes back to certain ideas and concepts that circulate around the primary governing institution t... Read More
Dhaka, March 25 -- As Bangladesh posthumously bestows the Independence Award on Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, it recognises a legacy that helped build Bangladesh after 1971. While Abed Bhai is widely remember... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 21 -- Like many people I have a jomidari background. There is a lot of glamour and show shah attached to the idea of jomidari and its lifestyle but at the end of the day it's just a profes... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- If any poet anywhere was killed by the sentimentality of his fawning fans, it was is Jibanananda Das. Bengalis have condemned him to a sylvan paradise, full of river banks, birds in ... Read More