🔴 The alcohol-laced fruitcake made by Shashi Gupta charmed neighbours and strangers alike.
Author Ganesh Saili talks about its prolific recipes that went into cookbooks, and in doing so also gives us tips on baking and brown sugar
Find out as economist Abhijit Banerjee, who recently released his cookbook, Cooking to Save Your Life, does a rapid-fire on all things food
While 2021 saw Bangladeshi parallel cinema having a moment in the sun, the country’s films and filmmakers have a long history of leading from the front
Architect-urbanist Kazi Khaleed Ashraf on the essence of nation-building and evaluating architecture through its locational ethics
How the world would be grateful if new variants would choose their future victims more responsibly
Born before Bangladesh, she grew up with the idea of the world as a global village, where religion and nationality only play supporting roles
One of Bangladesh's leading microbiologists speaks about smashing the glass ceiling
Here are this week's reads dedicated to Bangladesh's 50 years as an independent nation
How two Bangladeshi artistes divide their time between Dhaka and Kolkata and embody the essence of a Bengal beyond borders
Admiral Ramdas was the then commander of INS Beas, which was at the Andamans when the war on India's eastern front broke out on December 3, and which played a crucial role in the blockade of East Pakistan
A day-to-day account, from December 3-16, of the 1971 India-Pakistan war. East Pakistan seceded from then Pakistan dominion and was declared the People's Republic of Bangladesh, with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as its first prime minister
Between ghoti filiation and baangaal roots, between koi maachh and rui maachh, who wins the culinary battle?
From a war-ravaged nation struggling to find its feet to South Asia’s leading economy. Premier Sheikh Hasina has been leading the pro-independence front for three decades, aiming to preserve the nation's sovereignty, independence, and the citizens' fundamental rights
Even after 26 years, nothing has changed for a man from a river island in Bangladesh and a woman from a border village in India
Fifty years ago, in the aftermath of a difficult war in which India played a crucial role, a new nation — Bangladesh — was born. Bangladeshi poet Daud Haider remembers the day when freedom came to his people
Women have entered the workforce in large numbers, boosting the country's economic performance
Bangladesh has outperformed neighbours India and Pakistan in the economic arena
To ensure a civilised pet, the first thing to do is to show them, quite clearly, right from the beginning, that you are the pack leader
Here are this week's interesting reads that you shouldn't miss!
His novel, Delhi: A Soliloquy, is a tribute to his years spent as a flaneur, chronicler in the city
Filmmaker Geetika Narang Abbasi on being fascinated by the celebrity look-alikes in the Hindi film industry, the quest to finding them and making the film, which will be premiere in the Cinema Regained section
Amid two ongoing shows in Kolkata, artist Paresh Maity, 58, speaks about drawing from childhood memories, and how the pandemic has taught him the importance of taking things slow
What migratory geese think of the aeroplane and human world's flying abilities
Here are all the interesting and unmissable stories from this week!



