West Bengal
Thrifty eating in the City- An eat-all-you-can date!
Two doctors and a psychologist- what does this equation add up to? Well, in any other part of the world, under any other circumstances,...
Assam
The Life and Times of the Maidan Market
A Kolkata sport-goods bazaar like no other
As a peal of thunder erupted overhead, reverberating through the thin walls of the ramshackle one-storey structure on...
Racist Sayedul Hoque must be ousted
Citizens from all aspects of life and from every corner of the country along with several civil liberty groups have demanded ousting of the...
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Nabanita Dev Sen: The Feisty Feminist, Humorist of Post-Colonial Bengali Literature
By Lopa Banerjee
Bengali literature of the post-independence era has most certainly come a long way where women authors have shaped the world in their...
The tale of two infants
The tale of two infants and the reaction of the world ( specifically the media and intellectuals)
One of them is from Syria - a...
Red Ants, Black Ants – a Precursor to Genocide
Red Ants, Black Ants - a Precursor to Genocide
Smritilekha Chakraborty
“Red Ants, Black Ants” is a popular game in Bangladesh. Little children play this game...
A miscarriage of justice
A little over a year after being charged with assault and torture of 11-year old domestic worker Mahfuja Akhter Happy, cricketer Shahadat Hossain and...
Neighbourhood
Linguistic conflict on the Internet: Time to recognize Bengali and Bangladeshi as separate languages?
Linguistic conflict on the Internet: Time to recognize Bengali and Bangladeshi as separate languages?
Sumit Roy
Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella’s son 26 year old Zain Nadella,...
A miscarriage of justice
A little over a year after being charged with assault and torture of 11-year old domestic worker Mahfuja Akhter Happy, cricketer Shahadat Hossain and...
Tasmina, the daughter of Bangladesh’s village, with a strong will, has conquered the world
The Tasminas of Obaidul of Chaksul (Shankarpur) village in Dhamirhat upazila of Naogaon district
Tasamina is our daughter, a daughter of an uncharted village, defeated...
Nation
The martyrs of freedom of thought
Avijit Roy had great admiration for Charvaka- one of the greatest philosophies born in our part of the world, which from the ancient times...
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‘Bengali Muslim’ As An Oxymoron: Crisis And Conflict Of Identities
Legendary Bengali novelist Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay sets the context in this regard when he remarks in one of his famous literary works,‘Srikanta’, “The Bengali...
From Ekushey to Muktijuddho: The Myth of Bengali Nationalism
In 1964, the entire East Pakistan was rocked by violence against the minority Bengali Hindu community. Anti Bengal Hindu riot broke out across the...
Is Bengal Heading Towards A Genocide?
India, it is said, lives in her villages. But she can be understood through the slogans that rents her skies and the way her...