In Focus

Part I / From Artificial Intelligence to the Artificial State: Is the Trajectory Inexorable?

Faridul Alam

7 October 2026 • In Focus

157th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi / Gandhi’s return to Noakhali

Parvez Rahaman

6 October 2026 • In Focus

Why does Tagore still trouble Bangladesh’s idea of ‘us’?

Lubna Ferdowsi

5 October 2026 • In Focus

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Can Bangladesh make better use of its zakat money?

M Kabir Hassan

4 October 2026 • In Focus

Three revolutions that reshaped the world

F.S. Aijazuddin

2 October 2026 • In Focus

Paradise lost and found: Rediscovering early modern Bengal

Raziuddin Aquil

1 October 2026 • In Focus

Unbound Mother: The making and remaking of Kaali in Bengal

Swadhin Sen

30 September 2026 • In Focus

Do great leaders make history, or does history make them?

Maleeha Lodhi

29 September 2026 • In Focus

Poison and cremation: A forensic history of colonial Bengal

Mitra Sharafi

28 September 2026 • In Focus

Partition, Bor Porong and the Chakmas’ unfinished struggle for belonging

Anita Mondal

27 September 2026 • In Focus

How music carried Bangladesh’s struggle to the world

In 1971, artists did not merely respond to history—they helped shape it.

15 December 2025

Kazi Fazlur Rahman, a civil servant and an intellectual giant

Kazi Fazlur Rahman was a Member of Bangladesh’s first Interim Government in 1991

15 December 2025

Chittagong, before Chittagong: An early history

In the remote east of a region once called Harikela lies Chittagong, an upper Bay of Bengal port city at the juncture of the medieval Bengal, Arakan and Tripura kingdoms.

14 December 2025

1971 Bangladesh Liberation War photographs

The untold story behind 1971’s two most haunting photographs

Because the image was published, Naib Uddin’s life came under threat.

12 December 2025

What Begum Rokeya knew about changing Bengali Muslims from within

Liberation is not about what one wears or does not wear but about the values they live by

7 December 2025

Living in a time of fear: The rise of digital inquisition in Bangladesh

The pervasive violence — both physical and symbolic — in our times is contagious.

4 December 2025

A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story

In April 1971, at the age of 24, Val Harding was volunteering as a nurse at a hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, when she first heard of the atrocities on March 25 in Dhaka and the fight for the Liberation of Bangladesh.

30 November 2025

Early North Bengal: A (re-)creation and a lone journey

Naturally, ENB, which was mentioned as Puṇḍravardhana-bhukti in the Gupta epigraphs, remained mostly understudied.

30 November 2025

My experience as an editor of a Bangla magazine

We wanted Edesh-Ekal to say something to all citizens and at the same time to maintain a strong focus on women and their problems

28 November 2025

‘Struggle’: Noazesh Ahmed and his first masterpiece

All his life, Noazesh remained immersed in the enchantment of art.

24 November 2025

Remembering Munier Bhai

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

Photographing Muslim women: How Sufia Kamal broke the camera taboo

Sufia herself faced no trouble for having her photograph printed, but her poem did create difficulties.

20 November 2025

Dhaka’s forgotten WWII story: What soldiers feared more than Japanese bullets

The US soldiers and Allied crews who passed through Dhaka during the war ended up fighting two battles at once

18 November 2025

Bhashani and the gayebi janazah of 1968: A photographic history

The atmosphere was heavy and tense. It seemed unlikely that people would turn up for the gayebi janazah.

17 November 2025

Two forgotten kingdoms of Bengal

Maps are regarded as affirmative visual documents, permanently fixing places, distances, and itineraries in our minds. Yet we often forget that early modern maps were subjective texts, only approximating places.

16 November 2025