He was a prominent activist and supporter of Bengali as the national language of the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

‘Shabnam’ is a dewdrop in Persian. Shabnam (1960) is the name of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s passionate love story that stretches beyond the history of nearly a century ago. Historically, Afghanistan, and its ...

The mission of undocking a ship from the quay is always a matter of pandemonium, a chaotic task. Two things that everyone gets to observe are: a lot of running around and shouting. Some of you may ...

Syed Mujtaba Ali knows how to perform magic through his writing! One moment his humor and wit will make you break out in roaring laughter and the next you find yourself buried in deep thought being ...

'Shabnam' is a dewdrop in Persian. Shabnam (1960) is the name of Syed Mujtaba Ali's passionate love story that stretches beyond the history of nearly a century ago. Like the writings of his teacher, ...

Historically, Afghanistan, and its cities Kabul and Peshawar, were central in the Mughal imagination as the space where the idea of Hindustan took shape. Bengal, on the other hand, was the farthest ...

It's not always that an author creates his intellectual alter ego in a female protagonist. Syed Mujtaba Ali's Shabnam reflects his erudite soul. The poetic journey of the eponymous novel, published in ...