On January 8, 2021, the English dailies here in Dhaka reported an alleged rape and subsequent death of...

I read somewhere that the term social distancing itself is negative, that it ought to be physical distancing...

Dec 9, 2020. At the moment we are not in a lockdown, and we may be or are in the midst of the second...

It is nearing the end of 2020, and those of us following the waves of the Covid 19 pandemic are well...

Reflections

Shorol shohoj chinta

Shorolshohojchinta

The epicentre complex

There is existentialism, and there is existentialism

Pandemic ponderings

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The A to Z of marriage (and eight years of living apart)

Mohila der dosh: ek matro chinta

Out with the old, in with the new

A way with words

Rambling towards 50 

Ramzan, Ramādan or Romjan? Sehri or Suhoor or Sahūr? Iftaar or Ifter? Hijab or no Hijab?

A Flashback to Medina

Princely chinta