Lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals have made it clear that there is a need for better data to monitor and

It was a rewarding experience talking to the Director General of BBS, former Director General of Disaster Management, Mohammah Abul

For sometime Nadeem had not been able to sit down at his writing-table. He caressed with loving fingers the diary in which he had recorded his experience of the Pakistani genocide of the Bangalees in 1971. He was barely twelve then. His parents had put him in the

What would I do with the spring when mournfully cries the cuckoo, when flowers are not in bloom?

In 1972, while working closely with various National and International Organisations to rehabilitate the raped and tortured women of the Liberation War, Nilima Ibrahim (1921-2002) interviewed some of these heroic women and kept

The man got off from the afternoon train. It was early winter, yet he had a thick tweed coat on. The foxy colour of his coat went well with his bronze complexion. He sloppily wore an old but fancy tie and his faded trousers showed a few fat stitches near his thigh.

Fazr azaan, and dawn, will see Ritu rise to greet “Shadhinota Dibosh” on March 26. It being a Saturday this year, her son Anu (short for

The sky was an ominous leaden colour. Leaden, splattered with white clouds. The wind whistled in gusts. On top of a storm-battled palm tree perched a lone eagle. The murky leaden sky was pitiless. Gusty winds rustled through the leaves of the palm tree.

We commemorate March 26 with unalloyed joy and gratitude. A glorious day that marks the beginning of our independence from

The march of the hunted across a land No longer their own began

Sharif, Jami and Masum tell an unbelievable, inhumane story of barbarity and cruelty. Sharif doesn't speak much usually; he gave a summary of their two-day, two-night imprisonment in his characteristic manner. I had to extract the detailed descriptions from Jami and Masum.

Stay Away from Me

Celebrating Brilliance

Perfecting her swimming strokes in a pond for hours in her village home, did the thought ever cross Mahfuza Khatun

They achieved the highest number of A grades in the O-A levels exams last year. But they are not going to let that

The Sustainable Development Goals call for an integrated approach, taking environmental, social and economic dimensions into account: planet, people and prosperity. This year's theme clearly points towards the importance of considering Gender throughout all

Every year the month of February makes me immensely proud to be a native speaker of Bangla. At the same time I am also happy to be

By my faith! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it!

As we step into the 64th year since the fateful day of February 21, 1952, we take the opportunity to reflect on the long road we have

I have been hearing about “Shaheed Dibosh” for a long time, about February 21. But if I had not come here and seen it for myself,