At the heart of Required Reading are forgotten readers from the past.

What made Sher-e-Bangla so popular among the masses of Bengal?

Though Muslims of undivided Bengal used to view music and dance as Hindu traditions and distanced themselves from them, they warmly embraced Abbasuddin's Islamic songs written by Kazi Nazrul Islam.

The discovery of these rare documents and letters sent to A. K. Fazlul Huq offers deeper insights into history, verifying past accounts and vividly bringing the story of the United Front election to life.

The most aggressive efforts to sideline him and remove him from the Chief Minister's office came from Suhrawardy.

Rakib Hasan took Western adventure tales and breathed into them a Bangladeshi heart.

As Asia's first Nobel laureate, Tagore's visit to Japan created an unprecedented stir among the Japanese people.

Hashim believed that ethnically driven societies with a common language would benefit from using religion as a tool for political self-representation rather than relegating it to the private realm.

He aspired after Hindu-Muslim unity and a healthy synthesis of all faiths and creeds.

Very few scientists in the entire world would think about moving in the direction Saha had ventured for his country

In the seventeenth century, Dhaka was among the most prosperous cities of eastern India, home to nearly nine lakh people.

When we think of World War II, Dhaka rarely enters the conversation.

From the period of his lifetime and particularly in the aftermath of his assassination, Gandhi’s philosophies have been the subject of deep scholarly discussion.

When the Dutch, Portuguese, Mughals, and Arakanese fought over a tiny island

The movement was launched entirely by students, without any external influence. Moreover, the central student leaders themselves had not anticipated that such a massive uprising could emerge solely from education-related and academic grievances.

To understand Idrish is to approach it as more than a documentary. It is a meditation on how cinema can bear witness, reactivate memory, and ignite resistance. The film stands at a crossroads where the insights of critical thinkers illuminate its form and force.

When a colonised people rises to claim sovereignty, culture is never a bystander.

Nepal's federal, secular, inclusive republic—though crippled by corruption—remains a historic achievement.

Umar is and will be remembered today as a committed and uncompromising icon of the left.

He was a true scholar, a delightful conversationalist, and an uncompromising social activist.