BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Sports journalism and Bangladesh
9 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
22 June 2023, 08:16 AM
Books & Literature
Professing criticism: On Naeem Mohaiemen's new book of essays
8 June 2023, 06:59 AM
Books & Literature
Flesh in ruins
18 May 2023, 07:33 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'
26 January 2023, 10:20 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’
8 December 2022, 04:00 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
1 December 2022, 12:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero
17 November 2022, 05:46 AM
Books & Literature
Nothing matters, but Albert Camus’s 'The Stranger' does
7 November 2022, 11:42 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Life in modern Dhaka as portrayed in 'A Strange Coincidence and Other Stories'
3 November 2022, 12:00 PM
Books & Literature
Intriguing Statecraft and Enigmatic Politics
Looked at from a political perspective, Bangladesh will always seem to be a land of democratic upheavals and agitations that has
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Don't stop at this station
Paula Hawkins' bestselling thriller, “The Girl on the Train”, was something I was looking forward to because it was supposedly comparable to Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl - a thriller that blew our minds off. Nonetheless, the expectations fumbled as I gave it a read.
18 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Political Economy of Unpeopling of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of Bangladesh
The word 'people' is a very common and widely used term but the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'ing' makes it perfect as the title of Political
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Of Ball Gowns, Corsages, and Tuxes
In more ways than one, an anthology is like an assorted box of candies; you never know what's coming next; 21 Proms is no exception to
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
An arson in utopia
“Most communities just happen; the best are planned” - is the motto of a perfectionist community, Shaker Heights.
11 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Politics of a Violent Decolonization
Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury's Jatiotabad, Samprodaikata O JonogonerMukti: 1905-47 or Nationalism, Communalism and
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger
While everyone knows J.D. Salinger for his widely-acclaimed masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, very few are familiar with his other
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Farah Ghuznavi's Fragments of Riversong: Ballads for Our Time
Long ago, I read somewhere that writing short stories is more difficult than writing a novel. While writing about Fragments of
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
For the War Heroines, I will Speak
It was 1996 when I first got hold of Dr. Nilima Ibrahim's Aami Birangana Bolchhi, or rather, the book got hold of me—my soul, my
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Boy Who Lived in a Graveyard
Heartwrenching, un-put-down-able, and deliciously dark, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is winner of numerous literary awards for
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Byajstuti: Sadness of Daily Life
Anarchy has become like daily soap in our day-to-day life. Most of us seem to be “know all, see all” types, but say nothing.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewelry
“I started collecting stories and ideas about rings over the years... Over these years, wherever I went, no matter what people asked me
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Ashapurna Devi and the Feminist Consciousness in Bengal: A Biocritical Reading
The book engages with a critical discussion on feminist consciousness in India, perhaps in South Asia, as to the attributes of feminist
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, the editors of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
From dawn's early luster to unfulfilled dusk hours
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Fairy Tales
“and mother... Why tell me the story of a tiger,
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
A 21st Century Novel: Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace
It is awkward to write about a novel when one is not a literary critic. The task is all the more daunting, given that unlike Tahmima
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Bones of Grace or the Coming-of-Age of a Writer
Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace is the last in the trilogy that began with A Golden Age and was followed up by The Good Muslim.
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Anger and Ressentiment in Our Common Present
The fast moving changes in the world in the past few years have forced us into deep introspection and sparked anxiety about the
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
Carts. Midnight. Crossing.
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM