Before and after 1947, there were many Islamist claimant parties in the Indian subcontinent.

The most significant public confrontation between the Khaksars and the Muslim League occurred in Delhi shortly before Partition, on June 9, 1947.

Walk through the narrow lanes of old Dhaka in the 1950s and you’d hear it before you saw it: the rhythmic thrum of presses, the chatter of compositors, the swish of paper reams unwrapped and weighed.

Although Maulana Madani and Maulana Maududi stood almost side by side in opposing the Muslim League’s efforts to create a separate state of Pakistan by partitioning India, they disagreed sharply on many related issues.

During the struggle for the creation of ‘Pakistan’, three distinct strands of opposition emerged from Maulana Maududi and his party towards the Muslim League.

What mattered to him were moments when journalism mattered beyond institutions.

Against Madani’s Indian nationalism, Jinnah’s argument was that the historical interaction and proximity between Hindus and Muslims in Indian society existed only at the level of external social life.

“Eisenstein, Pudovkin / We shall fight, we shall win” was a chant by students of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) during the 2015 student strikes.

Architecture becomes the primary victim because it is the most visible, most durable, and most symbolic form of cultural expression.

how did this dish—so central to our family get-togethers, yet so different from everything else we eat in Bengali cuisine, with its preponderance of rice in Bangladesh—come to be here?

The previous article on Chittagong highlighted its nature as a frontier town in Harikela. The Markandeya Purana, one of the earliest of the major Puranas, validated Chittagong’s marginality from South Asia by locating it within Bhadrasva-varsha as opposed to Bharatavarsa.

The eastern subcontinent is one of the most fluid ecological zones in the world.

Our adventure commenced with the flight from Dhaka to Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG).

To those who grew up watching Bengali cinema during its most creatively vibrant years, Jayasree Kabir was more than an actress. She embodied a particular kind of screen intelligence—restrained, thoughtful, and emotionally precise.

In the light of Shikha: A letter tainted by anachronism

The international photography festival Chobi Mela will begin on January 16. This year’s festival is being organised around the theme “Punô”—meaning again or to begin anew, differently.

Daddy’s most widely seen self-portrait was taken in 1951.

Ekattorer Dinguli, Ekatturer Diary, and Abaruddha Dhaka remind us that the Liberation War did more than give birth to a nation

Ila Mitra transformed suffering into resistance, becoming one of the subcontinent’s most enduring symbols of courage.

In a city called Elias, there is no beginning and there is no end—“it lives imperishably.” The past and the dead are as vital as the rank waters of the Buriganga.