The Self / 5 literary characters you might run into at a biye bari this winter
As the breeze takes on its familiar chill and exams finally come to an end, my favourite season quietly takes over the city. It is not the long vacation, nor the crisp winter air. It is wedding season. All I want from this stretch of the year is a fresh stack of invitations, each promising a fea
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Book Review: Nonfiction / Borders, blind spots, and broken histories
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EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
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FICTION / Aquatic deity
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FICTION / The colour of red hibiscus
12 December 2025, 19:23 PM
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ESSAY / Revisiting Humayun Azad’s classic, ‘Koto Nodi Shorobor’
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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THE SHELF / 5 books that portray the ecological devastation of 1971
10 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations
9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
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16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM / The pen that pierced the purdah
9 December 2025, 12:54 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / All’s almost well
3 December 2025, 12:44 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Between home and elsewhere
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / An inter-cultural romance
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Contested words, painful genealogies
19 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An incident amidst nightly escapades
18 November 2025, 12:13 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Growing up ordinary in a toxic work culture
14 November 2025, 09:55 AM
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INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering
Gupta shares her insights on reclaiming forgotten histories, reimagining myths, and connecting ancient narratives to contemporary ecological and social concerns.
22 November 2025, 11:51 AM
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REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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REFLECTIONS / The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
7 November 2025, 18:33 PM
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THE SHELF / 5 books on women’s everyday terror to read this Halloween: The horror that persists
31 October 2025, 13:45 PM
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THE SHELF / 8 books to read if you’re fascinated by the louvre heist
30 October 2025, 13:30 PM
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EVENT REPORT / An eco-critical look at Sultan: Reading the manuscript of ‘Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha’
8 November 2025, 11:43 AM
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EVENT REPORT / Zia Haider Rahman on his award-winning novel at NSU’s Colloquium series
7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
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EVENT REPORT / “Words are, to me, a way of understanding truth”: An hour of history and poetry at ULAB
5 December 2025, 13:50 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Making of a mother: Discussing ‘IVF and Childlessness In Bangladesh’
13 November 2025, 16:13 PM
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EVENT REPORT / An eco-critical look at Sultan: Reading the manuscript of ‘Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha’
8 November 2025, 11:43 AM
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EVENT REPORT / Zia Haider Rahman on his award-winning novel at NSU’s Colloquium series
7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
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NEWS REPORT / “Curious love letter”: Wole Soyinka responds after US cancels visa
30 October 2025, 10:45 AM
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EVENT REPORT / Stepping into the uncanny world of Franz Kafka
Through its blend of art, technology, and literature, “Celebrating Kafka” offers more than homage–it invites audiences to confront the absurdities of modern life and recognize that Kafka’s strange, unsettling world is still unmistakably our own.
26 October 2025, 11:55 AM
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EVENT REPORT / ‘Barisal and Beyond’ reprinted: Celebrating Clinton B. Seely’s essays on Bangla literature
19 October 2025, 13:29 PM
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NEWS REPORT / Gibran, illustrated: Zeina Abirached’s take on ‘The Prophet’
Particularly striking is her choice of working only in black and white, letting both the poetry and her art speak for themselves in their rawest forms.
28 September 2025, 13:45 PM
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NEWS REPORT / A collection of books by renowned writers you cannot read
14 September 2025, 13:30 PM
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THE SHELF / 5 books to rescue you from brainrot
Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
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Let the queen rest in peace
Yukito Ayatsuji’s debut novel The Decagon House Murders was first published in Japan in 1978 and translated into English in 2020.
23 October 2025, 14:55 PM
Charting the south’s path
The book examines the context and circumstances that spurred these six central figures to devise or promote the solutions they did
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Leonard Cohen: Verses of mercy and turmoil
Before he was “Leonard Cohen—the celebrated singer”, he was “Cohen, the poet”.
22 October 2025, 13:45 PM
3 Partition stories for young readers
Here are three books on Partition that can be added to not only your child's but your own reading list.
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM
‘Barisal and Beyond’ reprinted: Celebrating Clinton B. Seely’s essays on Bangla literature
Dr Seely’s story in Bangladesh begins in Barisal Zilla School in 1963, while working as a volunteer for the American Peace Corps.
19 October 2025, 13:29 PM
A bit of Fry & Homer
Stephen Fry’s series, from the creation stories of Mythos and the monster-slaying of Heroes to the martial gore of Troy and now the cunning of Odyssey, is an undertaking of remarkable scale.
18 October 2025, 11:15 AM
Autumnal offerings for seasonal readers
As summer draws to an end in the Northern hemisphere, a certain kind of booklover prepares to shift to the next set of items on their TBR (To Be Read) list. Because whether or not you are a fan of spooky stories, the arrival of autumn–and with it, Halloween–evokes in many a sense of seasonal cre
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
5 books to rescue you from brainrot
Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
Why academic writing deserves to be beautiful
The refusal to write beautifully is often justified in the name of neutrality, of detachment, of discipline.
17 October 2025, 04:45 AM
A mundane tragedy
In her first book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Anchor, 1999), Kiran Desai wrote a comic fable of a man who escapes the world by climbing a tree.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The death of the film and the rise of its maker
Novels that explore the life of a filmmaker are few and far between. When I think of a film, it’s usually the actors that are at the center of my attention and more and more recent novels attest to that.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Babitz vs. Ephron: The cool girls from the coast
Where Babitz is like the intimidating older sister you could only listen to in an obsessed quiet, Ephron feels more like a friend translating my internal monologue into the perfect words.
15 October 2025, 13:45 PM
Navigating the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
This year’s Booker Prize will be announced on November 10 in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and livestreamed on Booker Prize’s social channels.
12 October 2025, 10:49 AM
A good teacher teaches; an extraordinary teacher inspires
Today, I stood quietly for a while in front of Room 2064 on the second floor of the Arts Building—a place where I had stood countless times before, each time leaving with his warmth and affection.
11 October 2025, 16:00 PM
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
The hair fair
On the northern side of Dholgram, a very large field hosts a fair every year–a Hair Fair, where people gather to show off their hair. The one who has the longest hair gets the highest honour. All kinds of hair can be seen–entangled, shiny, untidy, thin, black, and grey–all sorts of hairy people
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
Transmutation
The torn tune of a broken violin.Signifies the evanescence of joy..So many faded voices intermingle .This day and the night. .Moonlight has disappeared .In the sky overcast with commingled clouds. .The wind is sombre with the sadness .Of Bismillah’s ‘she
10 October 2025, 19:10 PM
The tragedy of ‘Demon Slayer’
As 'Demon Slayer' grips the world with its engaging story and out-of-the-world visuals, one can’t help but wonder about the anime’s tragedy hidden behind its scenic moments and painful farewells
10 October 2025, 14:30 PM
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Wins for his 'compelling and visionary oeuvre'
9 October 2025, 11:21 AM
Nobel literature buzz tips Western male author
Experts give nod to an Australian, a Romanian, a Swiss and two Hungarians
9 October 2025, 06:47 AM