topic: Bangladesh
November 12, 2014
Was I ever young enough to want to go out on New Year’s Eve? Or even to want to just stay up until midnight so that the new year wouldn’t...
Poetry
September 16, 2013
Drowning: 16 December, 1971 ‘Yahya Khan drowned the two-nation theory.’ Tikka Khan (1) , we only went looking into the water to stare at...
Literature
October 9, 2012
At all times, a student’s life is most difficult: the war-like attention to details during exams, the guilt of failing to wake up at six...
Opinion
December 16, 2011
Apni amar meye , Rabeya Khatun says as she presses me in a tight embrace. You are my daughter. I had met Rabeya only an hour and a half ago...
Reviews
December 15, 2011
In her new book, historian Yasmin Saikia serves up some bitter medicine. And there's no spoonful of sugar at the end to ease the aftertaste...
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