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,...
Attack on minority Hindu community for land grabbing in Mymensingh’s Ishwarganj upazila
Bangladesh's leading daily Dainik Prothom Alo reports that a family belonging to the minority Rabidas community was attacked for land grabbing in Mymensingh's Ishwarganj...
In the case of the death of lawyer Palash Roy
In the case of the death of lawyer Palash Roy, who was burnt to death in Panchagarh Jail, the question has arisen, what actually...
Popular singer Nakul Kumar Biswas has written an open letter to the Prime Minister...
Open letter to Hon'ble Prime Minister
- Nakul Kumar Biswas
Hon'ble Prime Minister-
I- an ordinary singer, an engineer.
I wrote a letter to you with great courage
Verify...
Protest procession of Muslim Touhidi people in Patia, Chittagong, idol vandalism
Protest procession of Muslim Touhidi people was held in Dhalghat camp area in Patia, Chittagong on Friday afternoon to protest against the killing of...
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...
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...
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...
When the next flood comes will we be better prepared?
Dam after dam gave in to the unseasonably early rainfall in the Haor area (a floodplain depression in the Northeastern region) of Bangladesh. Desperate...
International men’s day celebration and Kolkata
It was like any other day as I turned my laptop on and started checking the mails of the day without expecting anything other...
Opinion Columns
‘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...