The archive · English
Essays on politics, student movements, literature and society.4 essays published
How the man who refused to sign the draft for independence on the night of March 25th became the sole arbiter of the war and, over the course of three and a half years, betrayed his pledges of equality, dignity, and justice.
Bangladesh’s coming fight is over water, silt and the Bay of Bengal. This piece follows that fight from Farakka to Medog and from the Ganges Treaty to the salt creeping into the coast. It then puts forward a new politics built on the idea of Bangla civilization and the Bangla world.
An overview of Saussure's and Chomsky's key linguistic concepts, explaining how language functions as a system, how linguistic elements relate to one another, and how language is mentally represented and actually used.
'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.' — Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
