"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad", Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom – which erupted in laughter – accusing Wilde of posing as a sodomite. What was so terrible about posing as a...

Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, "Of the Nation Born" takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on...