Dhaka, Aug. 8 -- There is a celebrated saying by Pablo Picasso to the effect that art is a lie which tells the truth. The reality of that paradox struck me when I came across a Youtube video in which ... Read More
Dhaka, Aug. 1 -- In his book, The Outsider, Colin Wilson recalls the author G.K. Chesterton. "Chesterton has a hero who loves London so much that he would not dream of saying 'A taxicab came round the... Read More
Dhaka, July 18 -- When I was a graduate student of History at Cambridge, my thesis supervisor, the fatherly Leslie Wayper, once recited to me a wonderful little poem, "Which is Which", by a man called... Read More
Dhaka, June 20 -- Israel's pre-emptive military strike on Iran is the latest episode in a Middle Eastern conflict that began once upon a vanished time and that appears to have no end in a tangible fut... Read More
Dhaka, May 23 -- American President Donald Trump's recent trip to the Middle East, during which he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, was a success. That is because he built on ... Read More
Dhaka, May 9 -- No one remains the same after having read Jasimuddin's Nakshi Kanthar Math (The Field of Embroidered Quilt). That is because, as observers point out, the ballad, published in 1929, loc... Read More