Berkeley's Independent Bangla Voice
Behind the twenty year puppet show of the Taliban fighting the U.S., is the sinister reality of Pakistan arming, funding, training and providing sanctuary for the Taliban.
While our histories parallel, it is imperative to recognize the stark differences in outcome, positionality, and present status.
If I could fuse the richness of desi sweets into cheesecakes, cupcakes, or cookies, it would bring together both generations in a sugar induced harmony. And spoiler alert, it absolutely did!
I didn’t understand how someone could “pass away” but I knew that it changed the people it affected
Once I got that tattoo, none of those questions applied anymore. I was never going to be anything traditionally Bengali ever again.
The COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has resulted in a huge loss of life, political distrust and socioeconomic damage in both Bangladesh and West Bengal
The Chronicling Resettlement project, undertaken by two graduates, Atmadeep Sengupta and Sagnik Bhattacharya and supported by the Kolkata Partition Museum Trust, aims at researching post-Partition resettlement of refugees from East Pakistan in West Bengal
How did European presence on the Indian subcontinent change from trade to conquest?
I vividly remember coming home from school on a rainy day to find our house smelling like fried fish and tenga.
While being an annual celebration, marking the apex of Bengali culture, Pohela Baishakh it is not an invention made by Bengalis for the explicit benefit of Bengalis.
The Bengal Gazette 