History often remembers leaders for their speeches, their wars, their policies. Yet there is another grammar of power, subtler but no less eloquent - the way a man inhabits his clothes. A few weeks back, I was at the office of a national leader, the gentleman himself has a reputation for being...
There are men whose lives fit neatly into categories, and then there are those who dissolve them. Maulana Hasrat Mohani belonged to the latter class. He was at once a tender romantic and an unflinching revolutionary, a man who could weep quietly into the night and, by daylight, coin a slogan that...
Although I have had a cosmopolitan upbringing - spending much of my childhood on cruise ships voyaging around the world, a pivotal part of me had been entangled with the Jamuna-side town of Tangail, the place where my father hails from. Despite his UK education and professional life as an...
There are artists who belong to their time, and then there are those who bend time around them. Tareque Masud lived in that second realm. His work carried the pulse of a country still discovering its own voice, yet his craft looked far beyond borders. Even now, years after the road accident...
The beauty of a ghazal is not only in the beguiling words it is written in or the fineness of its musical composition, but also in the artistry and vocal finesse of the singer who voices the words, rendering the emotions. Ghulam Ali Khan sahab is an artist without whom the genre of Ghazal would...
Oxford University Press has selected the phrase "rage bait" as its word of the year, pointing to a striking surge in its use and a broader shift in the dynamics of online engagement. The publisher’s analysis shows that the term has tripled in frequency over the past year, signalling growing...
