Regime change in Bangladesh: The fallout for India
India's best interest may perhaps lie in strengthening a new democracy in Bangladesh.
4m ago
Symbolic and Imaginary in Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam, according to Kazi Abdul Wadud (1895-1970), perhaps the first formidable critic who took him seriously, “was the first writer among Bengali Muslims of the modern era who was able to conquer the hearts of Hindus and Muslims alike of Bengal.”
6m ago
Jasim Uddin’s 1971
There has not been much research on to what extent the shadow of 1971 has been reflected in Bangla literature.
11m ago
Bangladesh began badly: Remembering the roots of the impasse
Nationalism is not a political doctrine, not a programme. If you truly want your country to avoid regressing, halting, failing, it is necessary to march past national consciousness to political and social consciousness.
2y ago
The origin of the om: Ahmed Sofa’s aura
With the death of Ahmed Sofa on July 28, 2001, Bangladesh (or modern Bengal in historical perspective) lost not simply one of its most original thinkers; it also marked the passing of an age.
2y ago
Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947
This stain-splattered daybreak, this night-bitten dawn,
2y ago
Mary Frances Dunham: In memoriam
The blood of the farmer is very sweet and everybody wants to taste it;
3y ago
Was the Russian revolution a proletarian revolution?
What we call Russian revolution, from a long-term view, is a revolution in three episodes. Lenin called 1905 a "dress rehearsal" and, as Paul Dukes among others notes, he was the first to argue that October must follow on from February. So did Trotsky.
7y ago
August 8, 2024
Regime change in Bangladesh: The fallout for India
India's best interest may perhaps lie in strengthening a new democracy in Bangladesh.
May 27, 2024
Symbolic and Imaginary in Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam, according to Kazi Abdul Wadud (1895-1970), perhaps the first formidable critic who took him seriously, “was the first writer among Bengali Muslims of the modern era who was able to conquer the hearts of Hindus and Muslims alike of Bengal.”
January 1, 2024
Jasim Uddin’s 1971
There has not been much research on to what extent the shadow of 1971 has been reflected in Bangla literature.
November 4, 2022
Bangladesh began badly: Remembering the roots of the impasse
Nationalism is not a political doctrine, not a programme. If you truly want your country to avoid regressing, halting, failing, it is necessary to march past national consciousness to political and social consciousness.
July 28, 2022
The origin of the om: Ahmed Sofa’s aura
With the death of Ahmed Sofa on July 28, 2001, Bangladesh (or modern Bengal in historical perspective) lost not simply one of its most original thinkers; it also marked the passing of an age.
February 21, 2022
Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947
This stain-splattered daybreak, this night-bitten dawn,
November 29, 2021
Mary Frances Dunham: In memoriam
The blood of the farmer is very sweet and everybody wants to taste it;
October 23, 2017
Was the Russian revolution a proletarian revolution?
What we call Russian revolution, from a long-term view, is a revolution in three episodes. Lenin called 1905 a "dress rehearsal" and, as Paul Dukes among others notes, he was the first to argue that October must follow on from February. So did Trotsky.
July 31, 2017
Bloodless genocide: The allegorical gaze of Ahmed Sofa
Ahmed Sofa, known in his lifetime as a firebrand, now appears to be no less memorable for his poems. I do not know yet how posterity is going to read him. But it is all apparent now.
October 10, 2015
Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature
Abdul Karim discovered that there existed also Muslim writers of quality in Bengali literature and, what's more, their quantity also is far from negligible. In diction their works, for instance, those of the 17th century lauraetes Kazi Daulat (1600-1638) or Syed Alaol (1607-1680) are no less 'elevated and dignified,' i.e., Sanskritized in measure than Bharatchandra Ray's (1712-1760) or Madhusudan Datta's (1824-1873) of later fame.
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