Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...
Their growing alliance will not bring stability to the region. Rather, it will raise the geopolitical temperature and provoke ...
Tens of thousands of people have gathered on a riverbank near Bangladesh’s capital to listen to sermons by Islamic scholars at the Biswa Ijtema or global congregation of Muslim devotees ...
Explore the shared textile legacy of West Bengal and Bangladesh through an exhibition and book launch in Kolkata.
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 ...
After eight months on the road, Bangladeshi athlete Saiful Islam – known as Shanto – has trekked some 3,000 kilometres from ...
The Proteas, like the Australians, have the lowest loss percentage among the biggest teams in ODI cricket. South Africa have ...
In a significant and clandestine move, Lieutenant General Asim Malik, the chief of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence ...
HASINA’S return to power in 2008 was not just the return of a leader; it was the return of something darker, more insidious.
Information is filtered, memories are becoming just history, told didactically through lectures and books, substituting the emotion of lived experience with the misleading skew of ideology ...