The emergence of the provisional Bangladesh government in Mujibnagar, forty years ago on this day in 1971, was a defining moment for the Bengali nation. The first Bengali government in history, ...
Nijum Pratik and her family came to the U.S. from Bangladesh in 2010, but she struggled to find a place at UCLA to discuss the war and regional conflict that had impacted her homeland. She and her ...
Fifty four years after his passing, Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq needs to be re-evaluated in terms of the historical period he lived in and in the making of which he had such a large role to ...
(CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home” from New York to Kolkata, India. It will be a journey steeped in a history that has remained ...
At last, a Bengali tells captivating stories about Bengalis, without self-delusion or sentimentality
Think of the Bengali kathak, the storyteller – at once an orator, a singer of some capacity, an actor, and a man of wit and some learning. William Ward, the Baptist missionary, described in detail the ...
A new cultural movement is empowering Bengalis to embrace their heritage with pride, transforming authentic Bengali tastes ...
When the sun enters the constellation of Aries in the middle of April, many South and Southeast Asian communities usher in a new year. Last weekend, almost 150 Yale affiliates gathered in Sudler Hall ...
Hirak is an English Teacher, Published Author and Social Activist from Durgapur, West Bengal. Over the years he has had several of his articles published in various platforms, both electronic and ...
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