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.

A singular woman's tale

The Firebird is a story told by a woman (who is nameless) about herself and her life in a village in what is now Poshchimbongo in India.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Story of simple problems of life

Danielle Steel is a popular American novelist and has written 142 books--98 of which are novels—and she has sold more than 800 million copies.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Long To Belong

She walks the walk of her steps
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

NEW IN NAGALAND

Once upon a time, there were head-hunters. Only presence we found in April 2016 were two skulls perched on bamboo shafts on
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam concludes her Bengal trilogy with a novel that, in recounting the story of a love across continents and ethnic lines,
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Spy who Lives on

It was the summer of 1965. A tall, young man with dark shades in his early 30s got on his motorbike and embarked on a long arduous journey of over 350 kilometers starting from Dhaka and finally arrived at Kaptai...
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangladeshi worker who published book started by scribbling on cement bags

Angry at a former boss for threatening to cut the workers' pay, Bangladeshi construction worker Md Mukul Hossine starts scribbling poetry on the bags of cement.
23 May 2016, 08:53 AM

Nurjahan Begum laid to rest

After two phases of namaj-e-janaza, Nurjahan Begum, the editor and publisher of weekly magazine Begum, is buried at Martyred Intellectual Graveyard in Dhaka’s Mirpur. She passes away at a Dhaka hospital at the age of 91. Born on June 4, 1925, she is a daughter of prominent journalist Mohammad Nasiruddin, editor of Bangla literary journal Saogat and awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2011.
23 May 2016, 05:10 AM

The Wedding Ring

Sonargaon Hotel had not started then in Dhaka. The Shahbagh Hotel was turned into Institute of Post Graduate Medicine. The elite
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Reading Bellow in Chicago

Last month Donald Trump and I happened to be in Chicago at the same time. He was there for the Republican primary. I wasn't.
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Translated from the Bengali: SM Shahrukh

Hunger engulfs me: In my belly, the feeling
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Mor Bhabonere Ki Haowa

What wind is it lilting my thoughts so amazingly?
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Enigma of Articles

Language mold me, Its structure and form bind me
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM

BEFORE THE CITY IS DESTROYED

If the city is razed to the ground, the last clock stopped ticking...
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Smart Stories

The title and the epigraph of Zafar Anjum's Kafka in Ayodhya give a good indication of the central concerns of the short story collection...
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The life journey of a theatre actress

Binodini is the life story adapted from her two autobiographical notes titled My Story and My Stage Acting.
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh: Reform Agenda for Local Governance

Local government is a constitutionally mandated system in our country.
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Muhammad Zamir has worn, and continues to wear, different hats. A former career diplomat...
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Tagore's encounters with luminaries of the West

Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.
8 May 2016, 08:08 AM

OH TO BE IN PARIS

It's over half a century since France – its thinkers, writers, artists, film-makers – became an object of fascination with
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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