Kazi Ashraf Uddin

It was interesting to follow recent discussions surrounding the proposed or likely developments in merging some departments at Dhaka University as well as making traditional humanities departments like Bangla, History, and Philosophy redundant in honours programmes under the National University.

The world is encountering an unprecedented scale of injustices all over. Each of us is replete with a never-ending number of complaints.

The twentieth century’s interactions with the popular revolutions, capitalist advent, authoritarianism, World Wars, repressive state-system paves the way for a frowning skepticism about the Enlightenment metanarrative and nuances the global literary firmament with dystopian motif.

Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;