Disha hadn't walked out of the house in anger, she never did. She waited until some time had passed, wrapped her sari around herself neatly, pulled her hair
Mesbah Kamal, secretary-general of the National Coalition for Indigenous People and a professor of history at the University of Dhaka, tells Saad Hammadi how state policy in Bangladesh refuses to
The birth of Bangladesh was exceptional for one reason: it divided Pakistan, a country that for many was born out of the communal divisions of British India. Bangladesh emerged in
In the weeks after Mamata Banerjee's resounding victory over the Left Front, a roving writer finds a state reeling from the effects of three decades of left rule.
Around the middle of the 19th century, two men set out from a village in Hooghly district of what is today West Bengal, striding towards their future. Their journey, almost
