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Tens of thousands of Muslims attend annual Biswa Ijtema event in Bangladesh
Tens of thousands of people gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars at the Biswa Ijtema, or global congregation of Muslim devotees.
Bengal documents its rich textile heritage through an exhibition of four century old works
Explore the shared textile legacy of West Bengal and Bangladesh through an exhibition and book launch in Kolkata.
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Unquiet legacies in Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’
Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read ...
Bangladesh minority rights group accuses interim government of failing to protect minorities
Bangladesh’s largest minority rights group has accused the country’s interim government of failing to protect religious and ethnic minorities from attacks and harassment, a claim the government has ...