WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
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Doris Lessing’s message of hope for anti-Zionist protesters
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Bangladesh’s writers on Wikipedia: Abbasuddin Ahmed and Humayun Kabir
If such writers lived in, and contributed to the literary legacy of, other countries, I will offer a compromise and propose a hyphenated identity.
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Writing in the time of autocracy
it is difficult to put a number on those innumerable Bangladeshis who lived in fear or had a peripatetic life during Hasina-led regime.
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Daring to defend the anti-discrimination student movement
I don’t think Hasina fell because of my writing. Then why do I continue writing?
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The comparable patterns in the behaviour of Bashar al-Assad and Sheikh Hasina are staggering.
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Violence against students: A tribute to our little John Hampdens
Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.
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Of professors and publications
There are fundamental issues in the way academics in some countries are promoted to professorship.
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WB Yeats’s ‘Easter, 1916’ and Bangladesh’s July 1-36, 2024
What motivated our youth to defy death in order to free Bangladesh from the yoke of a brutal regime?
October 22, 2024
Doris Lessing’s message of hope for anti-Zionist protesters
Her message rings true for young anti-Zionist protesters who have been assaulted, arrested and subjected to smear campaigns for advocating for Palestinians.
October 3, 2024
Bangladesh’s writers on Wikipedia: Abbasuddin Ahmed and Humayun Kabir
If such writers lived in, and contributed to the literary legacy of, other countries, I will offer a compromise and propose a hyphenated identity.
September 24, 2024
Writing in the time of autocracy
it is difficult to put a number on those innumerable Bangladeshis who lived in fear or had a peripatetic life during Hasina-led regime.
September 21, 2024
Daring to defend the anti-discrimination student movement
I don’t think Hasina fell because of my writing. Then why do I continue writing?
August 19, 2024
Victims of autocrats: From Hamza al-Khateeb to Abu Sayed
The comparable patterns in the behaviour of Bashar al-Assad and Sheikh Hasina are staggering.
August 4, 2024
Violence against students: A tribute to our little John Hampdens
Students who were shot dead and injured were simply exercising their democratic rights and posed no threat to anybody.
June 24, 2024
Of professors and publications
There are fundamental issues in the way academics in some countries are promoted to professorship.
June 9, 2024
When will the US gain ‘independence’ from Israel?
Authorities in the US are eroding long-established principles and values in order to support Israel’s apartheid rule.
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Charles Dickens, colonialism, and the slave trade
Time has not forgiven him for his racist and imperialist views
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