Chittagong Journal
Stories, field notes and documented perspectives on Chittagong's places, people, history, culture, journeys and changing everyday life.
Kaptai Dam: The Lake That Drowned a Valley
Built for electricity in the 1960s, Kaptai Dam flooded farmland and villages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts — and left a lake that still divides memory today.
Sajek Valley: From Remote Hills to Hill Station
Once one of Bangladesh's most isolated valleys, Sajek was transformed by a road and a resort boom — and by the hill communities living through it all.
Portuguese, Arakanese and Mughal Layers of Chittagong
Traders, pirates and empires fought over Chittagong for over a century, leaving a port city shaped by Portuguese ships, Arakanese kings and Mughal armies.
Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra and Chittagong in 1971
From a two-storey building at Kalurghat, a makeshift radio station carried the declaration of independence across a country cut off from news in March 1971.
The Chittagonian Language: A Tongue of Its Own
Chatgaiya sounds different, builds sentences differently, and carries centuries of port history in its words — a dialect, or a language in its own right?
Chittagong Port: Two Thousand Years of Trade
From the port Arab traders called Samandar to today's container terminals on the Karnaphuli, Chittagong has carried Bengal's trade to the world for centuries.
The Karnaphuli River: Lifeline of the Region
From Mizoram's hills to the Bay of Bengal, the Karnaphuli carries trade, power and daily life through Chittagong — and the pressures of a growing city.