Azfar Hussain

Dr Azfar Hussain is director of the graduate programme in social innovation and professor of integrative/interdisciplinary studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, US. He is also summer distinguished professor of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) and vice-president of US-based Global Center for Advanced Studies.

89th Birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury: Bangladesh’s premier public intellectual

Serajul Islam Choudhury is the author of more than a hundred books and numerous essays.

2m ago

Labour, Life, and Liberation: The Emancipatory Significance of May Day

Now May Day is customarily credited with originating in 1886 from the eight-hour workday movement in the United States, but the Polish-German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg provides a distinct perspective on its genesis.

4m ago

Of poetry, philosophy, politics, and praxis

When we cease to have rhythm, we are dead. And we cease to have poetry, we are spiritually dead, one way or another.

6m ago

Of place and places: Perspectives, positions, and propositions

To speak of place is to speak of the topical, the toponymical, and the topographical.

7m ago

Our leading socialist intellectual and our teacher

There is far more to be said about Serajul Islam Choudhury's significance as an intellectual and literary-cultural critic.

1y ago

Serajul Islam Choudhury: Our foremost intellectual and writer in Bangladesh

Today – June 23 – marks the 87th birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury.

2y ago

Kazi Nazrul Islam and “World Literature”: Some Questions and Concerns

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) has been customarily characterized as a rebel poet, particularly, if not exclusively, because of his 1922 poem called “Bidrohi” (the Rebel)—a poem that fiercely stages his political, linguistic, even metrical rebellion all at once.

2y ago

Shakespeare—Our Contemporary in the Time of Coronavirus?

The question was already raised by some: Did Shakespeare write mainly for children? So-called "pop" Shakespeare criticism answered that question in the affirmative. 

2y ago
June 23, 2024
June 23, 2024

89th Birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury: Bangladesh’s premier public intellectual

Serajul Islam Choudhury is the author of more than a hundred books and numerous essays.

May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Labour, Life, and Liberation: The Emancipatory Significance of May Day

Now May Day is customarily credited with originating in 1886 from the eight-hour workday movement in the United States, but the Polish-German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg provides a distinct perspective on its genesis.

March 21, 2024
March 21, 2024

Of poetry, philosophy, politics, and praxis

When we cease to have rhythm, we are dead. And we cease to have poetry, we are spiritually dead, one way or another.

February 10, 2024
February 10, 2024

Of place and places: Perspectives, positions, and propositions

To speak of place is to speak of the topical, the toponymical, and the topographical.

June 23, 2023
June 23, 2023

Our leading socialist intellectual and our teacher

There is far more to be said about Serajul Islam Choudhury's significance as an intellectual and literary-cultural critic.

June 23, 2022
June 23, 2022

Serajul Islam Choudhury: Our foremost intellectual and writer in Bangladesh

Today – June 23 – marks the 87th birthday of Serajul Islam Choudhury.

May 28, 2022
May 28, 2022

Kazi Nazrul Islam and “World Literature”: Some Questions and Concerns

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) has been customarily characterized as a rebel poet, particularly, if not exclusively, because of his 1922 poem called “Bidrohi” (the Rebel)—a poem that fiercely stages his political, linguistic, even metrical rebellion all at once.

April 23, 2022
April 23, 2022

Shakespeare—Our Contemporary in the Time of Coronavirus?

The question was already raised by some: Did Shakespeare write mainly for children? So-called "pop" Shakespeare criticism answered that question in the affirmative. 

March 14, 2022
March 14, 2022

More than a pastoral poet

Today—March 14—marks the 46th death anniversary of Jasim Uddin (1903-1976). Popularly called “palli kabi” (folk poet), Jasim Uddin is also considered a major Bangla poet.

February 21, 2022
February 21, 2022

Our Language Movement: Moments, Momentum, Milieu

Our Bhasha Andolan—the Language Movement—was undoubtedly a major event in our political history.