As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has been a 540% increase in Fentanyl-related deaths over the past three

Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The

"Most children have two whole legs and two whole arms but this little six-year-old that Dinesh was carrying had already lost one leg, the right one from the lower thigh down, and was now about to lose his right arm.” Anuk Arudpragasam's powerful debut novel “The Story of a Brief Marriage” starts with this haunting description of a shrapnel-struck child being brought to a makeshift clinic and about to undergo

Nationalism is one of the most powerful political ideologies of the world and its wave still vibrates through the Indian subcontinent

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."

Say this, don't say that.

I was never an autograph hunter. Never felt the urge, or the thrill, or the bragging right, or any of the rapid heart-thumping emotions

“Up there he floats,

Living in Germany made it possible for me to pamper two of my deadliest indulgences: my addiction to chocolate and travelling.

“Are you interested in spiritually inclined younger men?” My recent tinder match asked.

Darkness had fallen upon the graveyard of thousand lives, along with a cold breeze which swept away the rotten stench of dead flesh.

If we eventually are

Pasty green doesn't suit you. White makes you look darker. Why would you even dare to wear black? That's forbidden. Don't even think

“The book is a memoir, not a history, and makes no claim to a historian's detachment or research.” With this statement, A G Stock

racing ahead

I know of Capt. Banerjee, Military Observer, only because he wrote feature articles for the Times of Saigon, edited by my father,

Recently, I have come across a significant number of Bangladeshi online journals, diligently invested in literatures in

Through her poetry anthology 'Elegiac Songs', Eeshita Azad does a wonderful job at describing the several stages of love, loss, joy and grief. The elegies reflect the contemporary style of her writing. The emotions conveyed in her poems are raw and presented without any sugar-coating. The book starts with a brilliant opening piece that grips the readers from the get-go.

Like every landmark day of every other country, Bangladesh's Ekushey February, or the 21st of February, 1952, has its roots decades

Refugee, migration and relocation have played prominent roles in literature and public spheres alike. In recent times for Bangladesh, it