Omar Tareq Chowdhury is the author-editor of a book on Edgar snow that was brought out on the occasion of Snow's birth centenary in 2005. His translation of Michael Parenti's Against Empire and Black shirts and Reds into Bangla has popularize Parenti's political analysis among Bangla-speaking readers. Currently he is heading the Institute for Development Policy Analysis and Advocacy (IDPAA), PROSHIKA and contributes regularly in dailies and periodicals, in home and abroad, on issues that concern the common people.