Fahmid Al Zaid

How our relationships with animals are evolving, challenging old ideas of kinship, companionship, ownership and the human-animal divide.

Every October, men from villages on the edge of the Sundarbans leave for the brickfields, driven out as much by the forest's shrinking rules as by the pull of wages. Left behind, women like Nirmola and Shushila don't simply wait—they run the household, manage money sent home by bKash, and reorganise daily life until April brings the men back. This is the untold half of the Sundarbans migration story.

World Tiger Day invites us to remember how empire, hunting, and colonial power shaped the tiger's contested survival today.

One thing Gazi made clear in his memoir is that the ‘man-eating’ habit of tigers is not natural because humans are not their natural prey.

Human society is a product of migration. The first migration of our ancestors is believed to have been confined to the African continent, almost 100,000 years ago.

14 March of this year marked the 143rd death anniversary of Karl Marx, a revolutionary philosopher whom I do not need to introduce to my readers.

There are a few old trees with wide trunks—I do not know their names—just beside my library. I never forget to have a quick look at the leaves during coming and going to the library.

It is undoubted that George Orwell is one of the most important political writers of the 20th century. Labelling him a political writer reflects how deeply his life and works were influenced by the events he lived through.