For years, I had no idea that the Chakma alphabet existed. Growing up, my family never mentioned it, and it wasn’t part of my school curriculum. Like many others in the Chakma community, I communicated […]
Kanak Chanpa Chakma, renowned artist from Bangladesh, is famous for her ability to portray Indigenous identity narratives and traditions through her creative process. Her unique creations contain bold colours, intricate details, and evocative portrayals of […]
Art serves as a lens through which we decode the complexities of society, and printmaking—with its intricate processes and tactile nature—offers a distinct means to explore these layers. In my recent work, Dialectical Reality (Figure […]
Art is a powerful medium for storytelling, and S M Sultan’s Grabbing of Rising Land series exemplifies this truth. Grabbing of Rising Land-1/ Char Dokhol-1, Grabbing of Cropland/ Khet Dokhol, and Grabbing of Rising Land-2/ […]
Original: Rabindranath Tagore [Translator’s note: Rabindranath Tagore’s essay “Imperialism,” a critique of British colonial desire and imperialist aggression, was first published in Bharati (Vaisakh, 1312/1905) and subsequently republished in Raja Proja (1908). Between 1893 and […]
Original: Serajul Islam Choudhury Translation: Junaidul Haque My childhood began on the bank of the Padma in the city of Rajshahi. Rajshahi was then a confined city – the heat was too much. It was […]
Assam, a north-eastern state of India, has always been an ethnically diverse region in India. Because of the strategic location of this state, which shares a geographical boundary as well as an international border with […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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