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Langadu- a national shame for Bangladesh
Peace is still a far cry in the hill tracts
The gruesome images of the indigenous people of Langadu upazila, Rangamati fleeing home, carrying whatever...
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Language across Time
Calcutta Walks thrives upon ongoing conversations with all cultures, and seeks to enrich the experience of being human, by facilitating meaningful exchanges. Language may...
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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Remembering Ananta Bijoy: An unsung luminous soul
There was a time when only a handful of intellectuals dared to promote free thought and rational thinking countering religious dogmas and superstitions. Their...
India-Bangladesh relationship : Look beyond economics
The relationship between Bangladesh and India mainly concentrates on economics and often on divisions- religious divides, land and border disputes, export-import imbalance, sovereignty, nationalism,...
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...
My Hypnotic And Magical Encounter With West Bengal
We had finally packed our stuff with our winter clothes, warmers and the stuff we thought we might require. We were driven via a...
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DGFI helped militant group Huji form political party
WikiLeaks has been publishing the secret US documents for the last few years. The documents also include a number of Dhaka embassy telegrams sent...
Travelling Trunk:Made in Bengal ~ 2017
Last year around the same time, a baby was born & I’ve never spoken about it in detail since then. It started off as...
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,...
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Values and spirit of Vivekananda: Influence on Netaji
From the very childhood, Subhas had already made Vivekananda his spiritual teacher, who had a great contribution in shaping the principles of his life....
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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...