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Serajul Islam Choudhury

Serajul Islam Choudhury is a Bangladeshi public intellectual, and professor emeritus at the University of Dhaka.

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Birth Centenary / Remembering Munier Bhai

23 November 2025
Munier Chowdhury's extraordinary contributions—not only through his own work but also by inspiring others and engaging in dialogue—made him unique.
23 November 2025
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Our finest representative of liberal politics

22 July 2025
I did not personally know Tajuddin Ahmad, but he was a contemporary of ours, and the politics he practised was within the Awami League—though there were different strands within the party.
22 July 2025
Bangladesh jute export challenges and solutions

Opinion / A symbol of our degradation

2 June 2024
It is a rare instance in the world when a country is sending its raw materials—jute in the case of Bangladesh—abroad without utilising it themselves
2 June 2024
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Opinion / There is a reason why daily news has become so depressing

5 May 2024
Isn't there any good news? Of course, there is. But good news doesn't make headlines.
5 May 2024
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The commitment of the martyred intellectuals

13 December 2021
The martyred intellectuals of 1971 had their differences from one another, but they had one thing in common, and that was why they were killed—their patriotism.
13 December 2021
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August 1975 and thereafter

14 August 2019
What happened in August 1975 was a great tragedy perpetrated by an anti-people clique who did not want Bangladesh to move in the direction its people had desired it to take. The desire embodied a dream and an ideology, and for its fulfilment the people had
14 August 2019
Abul Mansur Ahmad

A rare kind of literary talent

17 March 2018
I have always been fascinated by writer Abul Mansur Ahmad's boldness and his political consciousness.
17 March 2018
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SPOTLIGHT / The spectre of Red October: 100 years of the Russian Revolution

9 November 2017
The 1917 October Revolution was a watershed moment in history. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels set the philosophical vision for the scientific theory of revolution, and even actively fought for it, but it was Vladimir Lenin under whose stewardship it became a reality.
9 November 2017
The conference in New Delhi (June 7, 1947)

Partition 1947: How a nationalist movement turned communal

Who is to blame for the 1947 Partition of India and the large-scale violence that it triggered? There are accusations and recriminations.
24 August 2017
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THE UNFINISHED STRUGGLE

An intellectual is a person who tries to understand the world and, not less importantly, to communicate his/her understanding
16 December 2016
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Recalling the Martyred Intellectuals

An intellectual is a person who tries to understand the world and, not less importantly, to communicate his/her understanding to others around them.
13 December 2015
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