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  Father Timm: a pioneer in climate change research

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 14, 2020

  GROWING up as a child, I had seen amazing pictures of Antarctica, spread out on vast sheets of ice and blended into the limitless, white...

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  Darna nahi: a tribute to Shaheen Bagh

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on February 08, 2020

  LOOKING back in life, each of my three visits to India’s capital city Delhi had simply been memorable. Its charm has not failed to inspire...

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  A deadly virus is out, loose

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 29, 2020

  REMEMBER the 1970s television thriller, ‘Survivors’? The entire city remained glued to their screens, mesmerised by the intensity of the absorbing drama. The script and...

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  No doing away with liberal arts in universities

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 25, 2020

  MY NIECE is an adjunct teacher of the English literature at a Florida University. A few days ago, she called me from Delhi to say...

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  Our universities are institutions of change

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 13, 2020

  HISTORICALLY, students have played valiant roles in their nation’s watershed moments — political movements, calamities, wars or liberation struggles. Bangladesh and India may be quoted...

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  Gashing through India’s secular soul

  by Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on January 09, 2020

  PERHAPS, Narendra Modi’s critics have reasons to believe that the new Indian citizenship law is essentially perilous, repulsive and shocking. It is alarming because it...

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  A Muslim’s right to live in India

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on December 28, 2019

  INDIA’S Muslim clerics and the academics are apprehensive and have expressed their grief. Do the ongoing political unrest and emerging chaos in the capital city...

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  Bye, bye, Brexit!

  by Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on December 21, 2019

  BRITISH politics has finally won this year, at least in one major respect: efforts to reverse the Brexit referendum are now confirmed dead. Britain will...

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  Reminiscing the nation’s first birthday

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 10:11pm on December 15, 2019

  THE above lines define my lost moments in time. It was just another winter… after the winter of 1971. I vividly remember, a half-moon smiling...

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  The gods live in our apps

  Nazarul Islam | Updated at 12:00am on December 07, 2019

  OUR lives revolve pretty much around the lovely apps that we have created and installed in our hand-held devices. We affectionately call them our ‘i-phones’....