27th March 1971: When it Became Apparent that the Bengali Hindus were the Target...
27th March 1971: When it became apparent that the Bengali Hindus were the targets of genocide
Sumit Roy
On the evening of 25th March 1971, the...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Remembering Chuknagar, whose magnitude and intensity is matched only by the Holocaust massacres
Remembering Chuknagar, whose magnitude and intensity is matched only by the Holocaust massacres
On a sultry afternoon in May 1971, Wajed Ali stood exhausted on...
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...