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
17 December 2025, 19:04 PM
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Book Review: Nonfiction / Borders, blind spots, and broken histories
17 December 2025, 18:04 PM
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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
12 December 2025, 19:23 PM
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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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Blood, desire, and the fight against patriarchy
As we approach Halloween this October, I thought a story about the supernatural would be the most appropriate book review choice.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Cages of flesh and bone: Deconstructing social hierarchies with ‘The Zamindar’s Ghost’ and ‘Shakchunni’
In the mist-covered hills of Ooty and the famine-ravaged villages of Bengal, they speak of ghosts. They whisper of a Zamindar’s phantom haunting a grand manor and a shape-shifting shakchunni preying on a crumbling estate.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
7 lyrical fantasy books: Where prose becomes poetry
These are books that invite you to pause over a line, to linger in a paragraph, to lose yourself not in spectacle but in rhythm
7 October 2025, 11:14 AM
UK author Jilly Cooper dies aged 88: agent
Her agent said in a statement Monday
6 October 2025, 10:10 AM
Inheritance of luck
I train myself not to meet their eyes—
those begging at corners,
3 October 2025, 19:30 PM
The ghosts of memory, regret, and guilt return: A conversation with Ayman Asib Shadhin
He debuted as a screenwriter with the dark comedy–thriller Mainkar Chipay (2020), the first Bangladeshi ZEE5 original film, followed by Contract (2021), the platform’s first Bangladeshi original series, which he co-wrote and adapted from Mohammad Nazimuddin’s bestselling thriller.
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
Durga
In the hush—footsteps fill the laden streets, .grasshoppers teeth to return home. Veiled divine mother, .she blooms in shards—from under the rain.from beyond the sallow moon.in her lion’s gait… tidal sorrow pushing through .your swallowing metropolitan heap. .
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
‘Pustokaloy’: Where books breathe and memories speak
Notable works include Jinnatun Jannat’s “Canvas 1947: DADA”, a mixed-media compilation that traces her family’s displacement during Partition through digitally printed photographs, watercolours, and ink drawings.
2 October 2025, 13:45 PM
At the neoliberal table: Who eats and who gets eaten in ‘Carnivore’
K. Anis Ahmed’s Carnivore serves up a daring and disturbing literary dish. The novel is part crime thriller, part immigrant narrative, and part sociopolitical allegory.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
In which Arundhati gives it those ones
This is not a book review. At least not in the traditional sense where the reviewer recaps the gist of a book, quoting and analyzing parts, drawing or pointing to conclusions.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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
The u-turn
Is he eyeing me?.That young man with the receding hairline, flipping through a paperback on a discount table. No, revise that. He is not so young really, as my second take reconsiders. A freshness in his eyes made him look more youthful. If not for his thinning scalp, that little paunch un
26 September 2025, 19:02 PM
Side notes to everything I have ever known
I take my tea with two teaspoons of brown sugar, but some fine mornings, I betray my routine and chase the jolt in my fingers as I put the spoon down after just one or when I reach for another after the second. Even if for a fleeting moment, I love not recognising myself, not knowing where I wil
26 September 2025, 19:01 PM
Bangladeshi theatre: A sociopolitical study
Theatre in Bangladesh has never been merely a form of entertainment. It has always served as a mirror to society, reflecting its contradictions, struggles, and aspirations.
24 September 2025, 18:00 PM
The nine faces of Durga and books that reflect each avatar
The scent of marigolds hangs heavy in the air, mingling with the rhythmic clash of cymbals and the murmur of crowds waiting for a glimpse of the goddess.
24 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Step into dystopia
Revisiting ‘The Long Walk’ (Signet Books, 1979) by Stephen King on his 78th birthday
21 September 2025, 13:45 PM
An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
What authors, publishers are saying about an ‘off-season’ book fair
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Farhad Mazhar and the Being of Lalon Fakir
Farhad Mazhar has long stood at the unpredictable intersection of poetry, politics, and philosophy.
19 September 2025, 19:10 PM
Writer in the dark
There is a strange insanity that comes with being a woman in her 20s. A haunting fear that follows like a thought lingering in the back of our minds, refusing to leave.
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
Scent of the day
I wake up to the smell of coral jasmine
Those mushrooms in my garden of dreams.
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM