Dhaka, April 4 -- April is the cruellest month, as T S Eliot put it. And then there was Robert Browning who longed to be in England in April. William Shakespeare, in his jocular way, had this to place... Read More
Dhaka, April 2 -- I have often asked myself why Justice S M Murshed went into a state of silence in the 1970s. And I have not yet been able to respond to that query. But why do I raise the question in... Read More
Dhaka, March 27 -- So there will be a rematch of Joe Biden and Donald Trump at the American presidential election come November. It will not be a pretty sight, or an inspiring one. And, yes, there is ... Read More
Dhaka, March 21 -- Nothing breaks the heart so much as the tears of a young woman suddenly bereft of her husband. Nothing leaves a gash in the soul as much as the repressed suffering of a woman who lo... Read More
Dhaka, March 6 -- A day before 7 March fifty-three years ago, as a student of Senior Cambridge in distant Quetta, Balochistan, where our family lived owing to my father's posting in the garrison town,... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 28 -- Ramadan will be here soon, a season which will test Muslims' religiosity through the month of fasting. For Muslim families in Bangladesh, poor as well as middle class, it will once a... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 22 -- When Brazil's President Ignacio Lula da Silva compares Benjamin Netanyahu's murder of Palestinians to Hitler's killing of Jews in the 1940s, he is not indulging in antisemitism but o... Read More
Dhaka, Feb. 14 -- February is replete with history. And this history revolves around Bangladesh, around the incidents and events which have shaped its ethos. This morning, we recall Sergeant Zahurul H... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 31 -- Before the world plunges into deeper and wider chaos over the plight of Gaza, there is a paramount need for regime change in Israel. All appeals to Benjamin Netanyahu and his governm... Read More
Dhaka, Jan. 24 -- How does it feel to live under foreign, and of course brutal, occupation? We in Bangladesh know the answer to that question, for we experienced life under an army which subjected us ... Read More