Maritime trade routes passing through the ports of Sri Lanka helped spur the growth of pan-Islamic consciousness within the island's Muslim communities. Researcher and historian Ronit Ricci
“Material culture is the history and philosophy of objects and the myriad relationships between people and things.”
- Bernard Herman, material culture scholar.
Jogendranath Mandal was born on 29 January 1904, in a predominantly Namasudra (an 'untouchable' caste, formerly called 'chandala') village called Maisterkandi of northern Barisal District, in
Ben Bavinck, a Dutchman born in Indonesia, lived in Jaffna from 1954 until 1972, as a missionary and a staff member of Jaffna College. In 1988, two years before fighting
Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.
– John Soule, Terre Haute Express (1851)
A few months after the Afghan war, I was sitting in the Dhaka office
