Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters

1 May 2026, 00:00 AM Non-fiction review
That censorship is not only malign but also stupid and, in the long run, futile, is a lesson that every tinpot dictator and overzealous bureaucrat has to learn afresh.

Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance

Thorns in My Quilt (Rupa Publications India, 2024) unfolds through address rather than disclosure. Written as a series of letters to her father, Mohua Chinappa’s memoir traces memory not as a sequence of events, but as an emotional inheritance shaped by silence, expectation, and the subtle negotiations that govern family life.
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
On January 18, 2026 novelist and essayist Md Ashanur Rahman was awarded The International Creative Arts Award 2025 by the International Creative Arts, Language & Development Research Centre of the University of Dhaka for his outstanding contribution to literature and its role in Enriching Minds and Inspiring Lives. 
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
The book features 15 chapters covering essential topics such as attachment styles, love languages, and shadow work.

My Tent of Hymns

Our house rules required us siblings to sit before our father every morning for a session on the literary classics.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Living and dying by the code

“How many governments have fallen,” the prince had gone on, “And how many kingdoms have been swept from the face of the earth, and Orosh is still standing.”
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Times Food Guide Kolkata 2014

The Times of India Guides are targeted at both Local Residents, and Domestic and International Tourists.
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Extreme Food - What to Eat When Your Life Depends on it...

"There's no getting away from it; i've eaten some pretty extreme things in my time - live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung,
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Our Lifeline

Professor Anwarul Karim, a noted educationist and researcher, is best known to the people within and outside the country as a very
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Weaved through history

Publisher: Picador Publications Date of Publication: July 2016. Price: 6.99 GBP
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

The Power of Humour

Fun, pun, humor and satire are what characterize most of Syed Manzoorul Islam's works and his newly published Bichitra Swader Galpa(2017)ceases to be an exception.
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

A Prisoner of Memories

I do not really know. I never really thought I would or could write. The first piece I wrote was of course some old Grimm Brothers' fairy
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM

In Her Blue

A copper coloured dog bit her
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Memories Are

Dazzling diamond,
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM

“Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness”

Sylvia Plath indeed died memorably as foreshadowed in a poem written in the final months of her life.
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

Women of the World tells this story of personal and professional struggle against the dramatic backdrop of war, super-power rivalry and
23 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Kathmandu

One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention.
23 April 2017, 18:00 PM

A tour de force

The success of a novelist lies in unfolding the complexities and different hues of our lives. Hansdsa Sowvendra Shekhar seems to be
23 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Women in Yeats' Poetry

William Butler Yeats, the greatest star in the 20th century sky of literature, was at the same time a poet, dramatist, Irish Senator and
23 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Migrant Souls

Untold Stories of Migrants: Dreams & Realities is a book of immense contemporary relevance. The theme of the book—the experience
23 April 2017, 18:00 PM

A book worth reading thrice: The Little Prince

I came across this gem of a book by a complete chance of fate. I bought it as a present for my little sister's birthday. She was desperate to have me read it as soon as she was done. Given my penchant for children's books and the beautiful drawings both on the cover and inside, I dove right in.
19 April 2017, 18:00 PM

The legacy of Kangal Harinath

A teacher of a small village was so overwhelmed by the atrocities of the landowners or zamindars of colonial India that he decided to write something in protest. A former employee of a British-owned indigo production factory, he was a first-hand witness of the cruelties against the workers who gave their sweat and blood to only be further exploited by the zamindars and the British Raj.
16 April 2017, 09:38 AM

Kafka in the age of the internet

“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Nature

Not by rules
7 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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