POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature
POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature
POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature
FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024, 18:00 PM Star Literature
POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature
POETRY / Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature
ESSAY / Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM Star Literature

‘The danger in telling a single Partition story is that it completely erases the individual’

1947 was overtaken almost immediately by the language question, and the question of identity.
25 August 2022, 07:05 AM

Warm Red

A portrayal of a complex psychology, "Warm Red" tells the story of a terribly insecure man.
21 August 2022, 14:12 PM

Post-Partition period in books: Prabhas Chandra, Tajuddin, and Ahmed Kamal offer testimonies

On the 75th anniversary of the 1947 Partition, we look back at the testimonies of the veteran politician, Prabhas Chandra Lahiri; the young political activist, Tajuddin Ahmed; and Professor Ahmed Kamal's book comprising research on and stories of the time.
15 August 2022, 12:58 PM

Musing on the Revolutionary Poetics of Sukanta Bhattacharya

On Sukanta Bhattacharya and his revolutionary poetics
15 August 2022, 03:28 AM

Gaiman’s Paradox: When adaptations are overanalysed

The approach to critiquing any adaptation is to judge it as a separate piece of work, rather than as a companion piece for the book.
10 August 2022, 13:08 PM

Netflix’s ‘The Sandman’ re-creates Neil Gaiman’s world in its own image

If you didn’t read The Sandman, watch The Sandman. If you read The Sandman, don’t expect the same magic as in the pages.
7 August 2022, 13:00 PM

July’s ULAB Literary Salon discusses Bangladeshi short story anthologies

An engaging discussion on translations unfolded at the event.
26 July 2022, 07:48 AM

"Garos of 71": A documentary in search of history

When I stood at the Mohakhali bus terminal on that winter noon of 6th February, I did not know what to expect from the journey that lay ahead. I only knew that I was out to explore some unknown history of the Liberation War of Bangladesh, to dig out some unsung heroes who are still outcasts in the history books.
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM

Rabindranath and Rokeya as Educational Pioneers

Rabindranath Tagore and Begum Rokeya are two iconic figures in South Asian literature and culture. However, their genius was not confined to writing alone but spread in many directions, including the sphere of education.
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM

‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: More poets than crows

If this collection proves anything, then it’s that Bangalees will take to poetry like flies take to freshly cut mangoes on a hot summer day.
20 July 2022, 18:00 PM

"Law and Order", a translation of Humayun Ahmed’s 'Srinkhala'

It’d been a while since Nasu was awake, unwilling to get his head out of the comfort of his bedsheet. No job, hence no rush. Besides, inside the sheet it felt warm. Cosy and peaceful. Secured as well. He had no idea how and where the piece of cloth popped up from. Was it somewhere and someone around the night? He couldn’t quite remember, not that he was bound to. It’s not like his life depended on it.
19 July 2022, 12:26 PM

The retrospection of Christopher Isherwood: A man exploring the heart of falling Berlin

Perhaps his most significant occupation was one as a diarist who took it upon himself to document his life as he moved through some of the most interesting scenes of human history.
16 July 2022, 13:48 PM

A Crypto Question

I want to know how you gulp down  An entire bottle of tranquil ‘love’ In this sterile, abhorrent time!
15 July 2022, 18:00 PM

University of Dhaka: A tale of two eras

1921 I was rooted in foot amid visibly green grasslands of Bengal Holding the souls in person amateurs, experts, admirers, critics, curious, anxious, Bengali, non Bengali, in my Dhakai landscape.
15 July 2022, 18:00 PM

Andrea Levy’s Small Island: Racial Conflict in Postwar Britain and a Commentary on Our World

A daughter of immigrant parents, Andrea Levy wrote mostly on the struggles of Jamaican immigrants in England. Critically acclaimed Small Island (2004) is one of her best-known books and it attempts to visualize the days before, during, and after the Second World War.
15 July 2022, 18:00 PM

Netflix’s ‘Persuasion’ misunderstands Jane Austen’s novel entirely

The problem with Netflix’s adaptation of Persuasion is that it doesn't know what it wants to be.
15 July 2022, 15:01 PM

Poet Helal Hafiz hospitalised

Poet Helal Hafeez has been admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital at 8 PM on Wednesday.
13 July 2022, 17:56 PM

What He Did

He joined the army at eighteen; a soldier through and through. He was tall, sturdy, ruddy-faced, and almost always urbane. Mahmud was my neighbour for nearly five years. He had moved from barely inhabited hilly terrain of Khagrachhari to the city of a heightened breeding place, old Dhaka. His decision to leave the vacuous and soulless life of the barrack could be being closer to his own children– all of them were assumed to be in their primes.
8 July 2022, 18:00 PM

MOON DREAM 

I could make a kite From the petals of my heart To be flown by my son As a magic carpet, Instead of an elegy Lamenting my death. 
8 July 2022, 18:00 PM

A Tale of the First Feminist Poet of the Sub-continent

In a time when Bangladeshi film industry is grievously experiencing the dearth of powerful narrative and proper storytelling; be it commercial or historical or any other genre, Chandrabati Kotha (The Tales of Chandrabati) directed by N. Rashed Chowdhury shows some light for the industry.
8 July 2022, 18:00 PM