The mystic folk poet ‘Hason Raja’

Hasan Raja (1854–1922), zamindar, mystic devotee, and song writer. He goes by Dewan Hasan Raja Chowdhury in full. On January 24, 1854, Hasan Raja was born into a zamindar family in the village of Lakshmansree, located in the Sunamganj subdivision …

The speech that paved the way for Bengali Freedom

Today’s leaders frequently employ teleprompters, which show text onto translucent beam-splitter mirrors to give the impression that their statements are unscripted and unplanned. Bangabandhu had a teleprompter too, but instead of using pixels for his characters, real people were seated …

The abandoned Panam Nagar

Panam Nagar is a fully abandoned city of Hindu merchants in Bangladesh built in the early nineteenth century, located about 37 km south of the capital city Dhaka. It is a popular tourist attraction in Bangladesh and one of the …