BOOK EXCERPT: NONFICTION / Toward Ladyland: On the life and work of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
8 December 2022
Her 1903 piece “Alonkar na badge of slavery” marked the start of Rokeya’s explicitly feminist writing.
8 December 2022
Remembering a father's love
15 April 2016
April 15, 2016, marked the first death anniversary of Ambassador K.M. Shehabuddin. The first Bengali diplomat, along with his colleague Amjadul Huq, to declare allegiance to the new nation of Bangladesh, on April 6, 1971 in New Delhi, Shehabuddin was posthumously given the Independence Award in Dhaka last month.
15 April 2016