Art Against Genocide: A Testament of Time

As much as the ongoing Rohingya crisis is being extensively covered by the local and international media, the distinct lack of a serious
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM

The Uprising of 1857

There is perhaps no event in the long history of the British empire in India that continues to exert so strong and abiding a fascination as the great uprising of 1857.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Proloyullash

Ring out your notes of triumph! Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Temples and Mosques

“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Kazi Nazrul Islam: Some Questions and Concerns

In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM

A novel set on the brink of insurgency

The hardcover is clothed with a blue dust jacket with an illustration of two egrets flying among clouds and above the title. The clouds, I believe, represent Kalimpong, where the novel is set and the story unrolls along its winding roads. Sometimes it leaps over continents and focuses on another character living an immigrant life in New York City. Sometimes, it travels to the past, shedding light on history.
23 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Pestilential Scourge - The Plague

Published in 1947, the background of Albert Camus' The Plague is that of Oran, a coastal town of colonial Algeria. The author certainly
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Daybreak

A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Two Poems

You taught me language, and my profit on't
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM

When I Met Pip

When I met Pip, he was hanging upside down. It was not by choice though; someone held him by his feet against his will and made
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Professor Fakrul Alam: Literature, Life and Translation

He is surely one of the most loved and respected professors in Bangladesh. Even though he was mostly anchored at the Department of
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Professor Nurul Islam’s Odyssey

This book is the story of Professor Nurul Islam, arguably Bangladesh's most famous living economist. The narrative begins with his
17 May 2018, 18:57 PM

Jiboner Bone Bone - A memoir that depicts Bangladesh

Jiboner Bone Bone (In the Forests of Life) is a heartfelt autobiography written by Nuruddin Ahmad (1920-2010), one of the first Bengali-Muslim officials of the Indian Forest Service (IFS). The tales of his eventful life take in the growth and coming to being of Bangladesh, his observations on Bengali middle-class society and how he worked his way to the top of the Forest Department in the midst of hostile British and Pakistani governments.
17 May 2018, 18:00 PM

O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)

Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM

The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh

The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel

It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Mother

None can fathom
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Once Upon a Night

Surabala and I went to school together, played husband and wife, being the kids that we were. Whenever I went to their house, her
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Going to Hatiya Island

At first sight of our island, I confess
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM

Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women

The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM