Language-Movement

The Dhaka University administration has issued an official statement regarding recent activities undertaken by DUCSU. In the statement, the administration noted that DUCSU leaders recently installed monuments, launched a teacher evaluation website, and displayed portraits of individuals that conflict with the history of the Liberation War and Bangladesh's independence—all without administrative approval. These actions are inconsistent with the university's existing laws, regulations, policies, a...

The Inquilab Mancha, an organisation founded by Shaheed Sharif Osman Hadi, has remembered Muhammad Ali Jinnah with “respect and love.” Jinnah played an important role in the history of the partition of the subcontinent and took a position in favour of making Urdu the sole state language of Pakistan. The organisation remembered Jinnah by posting a black and white photograph of him on its Facebook page on Friday night (September 11). September 11 was the death anniversary of Muhammad Ali J...

Ninety-one years ago today, on August 19, 1935, a boy named Mohammad Zahirullah was born in the small village of Majupur, in the Sonagazi area of what was then Noakhali district in undivided Bengal. Nobody in that household could have guessed that this child would grow up to change the shape of Bengali storytelling twice over, first with his pen and then with his camera, before vanishing into the chaos of a newborn nation and never being found again. The world remembers him as Zahir Raihan: nove...