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Roaring Liberation

What would I do with the spring when mournfully cries the cuckoo, when flowers are not in bloom?
26 March 2016, 09:08 AM

As a War Heroine, I Speak

In 1972, while working closely with various National and International Organisations to rehabilitate the raped and tortured women of the Liberation War, Nilima Ibrahim (1921-2002) interviewed some of these heroic women and kept
26 March 2016, 09:06 AM

Without a name, without a tribe

The man got off from the afternoon train. It was early winter, yet he had a thick tweed coat on. The foxy colour of his coat went well with his bronze complexion. He sloppily wore an old but fancy tie and his faded trousers showed a few fat stitches near his thigh.
26 March 2016, 09:05 AM

Midnight Marathon

Fazr azaan, and dawn, will see Ritu rise to greet “Shadhinota Dibosh” on March 26. It being a Saturday this year, her son Anu (short for
26 March 2016, 08:00 AM

What Price Honour?

The sky was an ominous leaden colour. Leaden, splattered with white clouds. The wind whistled in gusts. On top of a storm-battled palm tree perched a lone eagle. The murky leaden sky was pitiless. Gusty winds rustled through the leaves of the palm tree.
25 March 2016, 18:01 PM

Editor's note

We commemorate March 26 with unalloyed joy and gratitude. A glorious day that marks the beginning of our independence from
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM

ARGUS UNDER ANAESTHESIA

The march of the hunted across a land No longer their own began
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Those days of 71

Sharif, Jami and Masum tell an unbelievable, inhumane story of barbarity and cruelty. Sharif doesn't speak much usually; he gave a summary of their two-day, two-night imprisonment in his characteristic manner. I had to extract the detailed descriptions from Jami and Masum.
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM

BANGLADESH I

Stay Away from Me
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Celebrating Brilliance

Celebrating Brilliance
11 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The New Icons

Perfecting her swimming strokes in a pond for hours in her village home, did the thought ever cross Mahfuza Khatun
11 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The extraordinary achievers

They achieved the highest number of A grades in the O-A levels exams last year. But they are not going to let that
11 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Closing the gaps for gender equality: The role of the Bangladesh Police in fighting Gender Based Violence

The Sustainable Development Goals call for an integrated approach, taking environmental, social and economic dimensions into account: planet, people and prosperity. This year's theme clearly points towards the importance of considering Gender throughout all
7 March 2016, 18:00 PM

The extinction of Bangla

Every year the month of February makes me immensely proud to be a native speaker of Bangla. At the same time I am also happy to be
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Old Bangla prose

By my faith! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing anything about it!
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

EDITOR'S NOTE

As we step into the 64th year since the fateful day of February 21, 1952, we take the opportunity to reflect on the long road we have
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Satyajit Roy's memorable speech at Dhaka

I have been hearing about “Shaheed Dibosh” for a long time, about February 21. But if I had not come here and seen it for myself,
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The economics of learning a new language

When we look back at the previous century, we do so today with the wisdom that is only ever afforded to hindsight. But even through
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

In the land of the Bangalis

AS we celebrate another Amar Ekushey, we remind ourselves of the importance of language in forming and defining our identities. We
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

One step forward, two steps back

BANGLADESH'S vision of a knowledge-based society is shackled in the vicious cycle of falling readership and substandard publishing sector infested countless problems.
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM