how did this dish—so central to our family get-togethers, yet so different from everything else we eat in Bengali cuisine, with its preponderance of rice in Bangladesh—come to be here?

The previous article on Chittagong highlighted its nature as a frontier town in Harikela. The Markandeya Purana, one of the earliest of the major Puranas, validated Chittagong’s marginality from South Asia by locating it within Bhadrasva-varsha as opposed to Bharatavarsa.

The eastern subcontinent is one of the most fluid ecological zones in the world.

Our adventure commenced with the flight from Dhaka to Kunming Changshui International Airport (KMG).

To those who grew up watching Bengali cinema during its most creatively vibrant years, Jayasree Kabir was more than an actress. She embodied a particular kind of screen intelligence—restrained, thoughtful, and emotionally precise.

In the light of Shikha: A letter tainted by anachronism

The international photography festival Chobi Mela will begin on January 16. This year’s festival is being organised around the theme “Punô”—meaning again or to begin anew, differently.

Daddy’s most widely seen self-portrait was taken in 1951.

Ekattorer Dinguli, Ekatturer Diary, and Abaruddha Dhaka remind us that the Liberation War did more than give birth to a nation

Ila Mitra transformed suffering into resistance, becoming one of the subcontinent’s most enduring symbols of courage.

In a city called Elias, there is no beginning and there is no end—“it lives imperishably.” The past and the dead are as vital as the rank waters of the Buriganga.

Jasimuddin remembered singing songs to himself. He could not remember the words but remembered putting his own words into some of them.

A Spanish animator reimagines Sultana’s Dream

Why did Khaleda Zia, a typical housewife who had become widow at a critical age in terms of Bangladesh's culture, join politics?

Zainul flows into Naib Uddin, and Naib Uddin flows back into Zainul, again and again. But their relationship is not limited to subject matter alone.

Inscriptions serve as a missing link to the past, offering many historical clues otherwise unavailable elsewhere.

Rokeya’s utopia asserts that the highest priority of science is not maximising output, but maximising human freedom and leisure.

Begum had to shift from its office from one country to another, witness Partition, Liberation War, change of regimes, change in printing technology, but its editor, Nurjahan Begum, never wavered.

In conversation with Rehman Sobhan, one of Bangladesh’s most distinguished economists and a celebrated public intellectual.

Due to its strong ties to Pakistan as a Cold War ally, the Nixon administration declined to recognise the genocide.