Faridul Alam

Dr Faridul Alam is a former faculty member at the City University of New York (CUNY) and a licensed social work practitioner. He writes full-time on interdisciplinary issues, primarily through the lenses of postmodernism and postcolonialism.

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End of reading? A post-literate society in the making

28 August 2026
AI is reshaping reading, writing and knowledge, creating a post-literate culture where no single medium remains dominant.
28 August 2026
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What death teaches us about life

21 August 2026
Death is not merely where life ends; it is the hidden architecture through which existence takes form, meaning, and motion.
21 August 2026
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The unfinished histories of Partition

16 August 2026
Partition remains an unfinished history, shaped by competing narratives, memories, political interests, and the enduring question of who gets to narrate.
16 August 2026
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The Tagore paradox: Why critique strengthens his legacy

24 July 2026
Tagore’s literary authority endures because even attempts to challenge his canonical status ultimately reinforce his centrality instead.
24 July 2026
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How Roman Jakobson changed modern thought

18 July 2026
On Roman Jakobson's death anniversary, revisiting how one linguist reshaped structuralism, psychoanalysis, and interdisciplinary thought forever.
18 July 2026
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Why the US can no longer contain China

18 June 2026
Trump–Xi summit analysis exploring managed rivalry, interdependence, strategic instability, and the limits of contemporary geopolitical interpretation.
18 June 2026
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The apology for the animal: Donald Trump, the buffalo, and the breakdown of political naming

8 June 2026
Using Trump, a buffalo, and thinkers from Barthes to Nietzsche, this essay explores myth, metaphor, and power.
8 June 2026
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Tagore’s “Balaka” and the decolonial poetics of becoming

30 May 2026
A deep dive into Rabindranath Tagore’s Balaka, analyzing its kinetic cosmology, Indic traditions, and its relevance to modern decolonial thought.
30 May 2026
The quest for reform in Bangladesh's governance

Between a rock and a hard place

Crony capitalism and the quest for reform in Bangladesh's governance
25 October 2024
July 2024 uprising: The lions need their own historians

July 2024 uprising: The lions need their own historians

It is inspiring to see Gen Z carving out its own pathway by taking concrete actions rather than resorting to empty rhetoric
27 August 2024
The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.

Of translation

The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.
18 February 2024
The question of translation

The question of translation

There is no denying the truism that translation historically served the best interest of the colonisers.
30 September 2023