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...
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,...
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...
Bangladesh: Do not legitimize Paedophilia
There is no room for argument, that the child marriage epidemic in Bangladesh is a concern for a leader as ambitious as Seikh Hasina,...
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...
Top 26 Bengali Entrepreneurs
Ranking the most successful Bengali entrepreneurs is not an easy task, especially when you consider that most of the Companies they run are unlisted....
End the culture of impunity
A victory day free from the physical presence of any known war criminal was probably the central theme of this years victory day celebration,...
9 Stages of a Bengali’s life in Bangalore
Stage 1 – Getting ready – A month to launch date
You just scored that dream job in Bangalore. Your proud parents have booked your...
The Global Route
Day before yesterday, I came to New York from Delhi. Surprisingly, I feel more at home in New York than in Delhi although it...
A Serving of the real Siam
It is definitely the sign of the times we live in that when anyone declares that they are off on a vacation to Thailand-...
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...