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Books & Literature
Veteran singer Ferdausi Rahman’s autobiography launched at Bengal Shilpalay
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Books
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
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Literature
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
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The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
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What to read
Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
The Old City
Here are the steps leading down to the lake
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Companions
They sit on the veranda every afternoon; an old man and an old woman. The man is in his seventies with white hair thinning in the
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Verses on love and agony: Mashuk Chowdhury's Swarger Replica
Two years earlier I had reviewed one of Mashuk Chowdhury's poetry collections Nodir Nam Dusshomoy for The Daily Star Book Review
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Rabindranath Tagore's Spring Songs
Since whether you keep me in mind or not isn't in my mind at all,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
All about Love
“So, Monsieur! What are you going to sing for me today? Neele neele ambar, perhaps?” she asked flaunting her azure saree. For once,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Whirlpool of Our Stories
And I come here to take your hand,
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
In a world crippled by biotech apocalypse…
Jeff Vandermeer beautifully paints a dystopian imagery in his latest title, Borne. He welcomes the readers to a dangerous city by a toxic
7 February 2018, 18:00 PM
The Three-Legged Cat
Ammu is crying in the next room. Incessantly. I can't stand it any longer. Why did she do it? I have no doubt that she did it even
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
When Kokeshi Sleeps
Go hush hush, go shh shh
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Crossing Borders
In one of my trips to the USA, I had a ticket on Royal Jordanian Airlines with a stopover at Amman. I halted there for three days, saw
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?
“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction and non-fiction” (Claire Battershill in “No One Wants Biography”).
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Making Revolution Strange/r: Viktor Shklovsky and the Bolsheviks
1978. When Serena Vitale, an Italian writer and translator, managed her third meeting with Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984), the
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
ALL WORK AND SOME PLAY AT RADA
Rada was a lot of hard work interspersed with a good deal of pressure releasers. Talk about the right doses of work and play—RADA
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Revisiting Banaphool's Stories
No life can simply be subsumed under a single category- nor is it possible to come up with a single term to define life's fluxes or
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Poetry
I imagine the lives of others,
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Chronicle of a Death Least Foreseen
As I was just leafing through Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a feeble attempt to cope with the emptiness
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Musings on a Poet, a City and a Football Team
Alone upon the housetops, to the North
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
A book outside the ordinary
Haunting yet heart-warming with a hint of dark humour – it is a tale of two young boys and their father dealing with the loss of their mother. Needless to say, it is about grief in all its ugliness and melancholic beauty.
24 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Of Jean Paul Sartre and Imposture
In October 1964, Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French philosopher and novelist, was declared winner of the Nobel Prize for literature for that year.
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Two Poems by Maruful Islam
The last traces of water evaporate from the beak of the wind
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM