An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Apni Ki Alien Dekhte Chan?’: A debut with immense possibility
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
THE SHELF / Literature thrives beyond the centre too
5 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / From protests to power: The journey to Bangladesh’s July Uprising
5 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Between tradition and taboo: The arranged marriage trope in Bangla dark romance literature
26 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Celebrating diversity and language at “Bhasha Utshob 2025”
26 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOI MELA 2025 / 5 books to look out for at this year’s Boi Mela
19 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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Inspirational, Imaginative, Unconventional-Razia Khan Amin
There is hardly anything anywhere in the net to indicate how good Razia Khan Amin (1936-2011) (aka Razia Khan, or Mrs. Amin to us
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Imagination's winter
When snow falls, people at a distance
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Rediscovering Origin
These two questions happen to be at the heart of human knowledge and rationality, and the focal point of Dan Brown's ground-
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
SKETCHES ON A WIDE CAMPUS
This book's subtitle, Sketches from my Life gestures helpfully at the book's content for it is about the full and colorful life lived by its
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Specks of Dreams and Polarized Dusts
I fell asleep within my sleep and woke up to find myself in your dream, which is also mine.
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Stairway to Wonderland
Past giant mountains, which collide with the blue linings of the abyss,
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reincarnation
We were in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waiting for a table at a popular restaurant. There were only two benches and a chair arranged
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reminiscing Comilla
This evening, it's my nose or maybe I've been getting intimations of the sweet odor of burning incense!
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Church Bells and Darjeeling Tea
The title of the book entices the reader. We all love Darjeeling tea, but why 'Church bells?' Zeena Chowdhury's experience of
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Efflorescence of South Asian Sci Fi?
I have long been a reader of science fiction. Not just for entertainment, but also for insights useful for my research and teaching.
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
O Mayor! My Mayor!
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
A Game of Light and Darkness
Charulata Akhter was an ordinary, braided, floral salwar kameez-wearing nineteen-year-old from the Shundarganj village of Rangpur.
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
EXQUISITE GASTRONOMY
After a long field trip, hunger gripped the mission members who could barely wait to eat, yearning for whatever they could find. The
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Is It Truth or Dare?
Those familiar with Nadia Kabir Barb's column Straight Talk in The Daily Star will be pleased with her short fiction debut Truth or Dare.
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Full Circle
How innocently I met Islam! It was through a humble kind of “How do you do?” proffered to a handful of Rajasthan mosques; among
22 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Down the rabbit hole we go
If you grew up watching Disney's animated classic Alice in Wonderland, you must have questioned a lot of the peculiar aspects or as
20 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Stories from the Edge
A perfect read for the month of our victory, Stories from the Edge is an anthology of personal and deeply emotional narratives of our
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Partition, 1947—Whodunnit?
On August 26, 2017, DS brought out a special supplement on the1947 partition of Bengal. It contained fine articles on the subject by
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
An Impression of Some Turbulent Days
First published in 1973, Amy Geraldine Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University: 1947-1951, is not just another memoir. The current
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Freedom,You Are
Freedom, you are
16 December 2017, 18:00 PM