Problems of freedom of expressions
Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq :Freedom of expression constitutes many a complicated problems. It is related to a number of problems which cannot be solved permanently....
New Nation Supplement
Nationalism to Liberation
Dr. Md. Shairul Mashreque and Dr. M. Abul Kashem Mozumder :We fought Liberation War not only for economic emancipation. Bengali nationalism created out of perennial...
The political victimisation of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Akhtar Balouch :10 Downing Street, London, and 10 Victoria Road, Karachi, are two similarly sounding and important, if not equally important, addresses. One is the...
Manik Mia, crusader for justice and freedom
Alamgir Mohiuddin :He was a legend in his own lifetime. A relentless crusader for justice and press freedom, Tofazzal Hossain popularly known as Manik Miah...
Maulana Bhashani : The leader of the oppressed
Muhammad Quamrul Islam :Frankly speaking it is a matter of pleasure and pain for septuagenarians and above who have seen or followed Bhashani’s politics and...
Sher-e-Bangla : In memoriam
Prof. Md. Moslemuddin Sikder :Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, popularly known as ‘Sher-e-Bangla (1873-1962) was the first Muslim Mahyor of Calcutta City Corporation, the first Muslim...
The origin of Bangla new year and celebrating Pahela Baishakh
Syed Ashraf Ali :We celebrate Pahela Baishakh or the Bangla New Year’s Day. Everything under the sun looks gay and cheerful and colourful, one is...
A new approach to Tagore’s music
Matthew Pritchard :What can Tagore’s music mean to the West? I’ll begin by explaining briefly my own involvement with Tagore’s music. More than a decade...
The Rebel within us : An introduction
Sajed Kamal :On the one hand are inequality, oppression, colonialism, tyranny, hypocrisy of all kinds, religious, moral or political greed, fanaticism, violence, racism, communalism, sorrow,...
Sacrifices and achievements
Bashir Al Helal :Language Movement began in 1948 and reached its climax in the killing of 21 February 1952, and ended in the adoption of...
Kazi Nazrul Islam : Poet of tolerance
Peter Custers :In November 1922, British colonial authorities issued an arrest warrant for the poet Nazrul Islam- a rising star of Bengali literature, charging him...
Nazrul : Protagonist of universal humanism
M.Mizanur Rahman :Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) was one of the great exponents for the freedom of human spirit having the outstanding expressive quality of love...