Afsan Chowdhury
Afsan Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi liberation war researcher, columnist and journalist.
Subsumed by history and nation
Where does Faiz the poet and pan-Southasian Marxist end and Faiz the Pakistani begin? This is a question to which Bangladeshis, among others, still seek an answer.
Jan 28, 2011
The coming crisis
From Bangladesh to India … and then the rest?
Oct 01, 2009
How little we will ever know
From faith to doubt and more: one historian's move away from history, and back into the real world. The context: the making of Bangladesh.
Jul 06, 2008
The man who lost his goat: Missing Gandhi in Bangladesh
For all intents and purposes, Gandhi has almost no place in modern-day Bangladesh's history.
Jan 28, 2006
The nearly secret Maobadi War
Red radicals of Bangladesh have been at it for five decades, but more than a law and order issue their presence points to a systemic failure of the state.
Jul 25, 2005
Scared and hungry in the air
Travellers thrombosis and bad films are some of the terrors that await the flyer who departs Dhaka for London.
Apr 01, 2003
Such long journeys of silence and forgiveness
Bangladesh is now being imagined outside, it has been externalized, and there is no longer the trickle-down of hope.
Jan 01, 2003
Latest Articles
Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives
Forced migration, “development” pressures, political neglect and the climate crisis have assailed the Maldives’ less-populous atolls, eroding the country’s identity and driving thousands to the capital
Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast
Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast
How Southasia and Oman intertwined
In ‘Sovereigns of the Sea’, the histories of Omani sultans in the age of empire speak to the interconnectedness of Southasia, West Asia and East Africa
G20 summit in Delhi, new allegations on the Easter Sunday bombings, the return of Nawaz Sharif and more
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