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
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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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The Idea of Order in Bangladesh
I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
A Welsh Poet Foresees His Death: Rakhine Province, 1944.
As many hundreds of thousands of refugees stream out of Rakhine, leaving behind family killed and homes reduced to ashes, it may seem, and maybe is, peculiarly insensitive, untimely and Eurocentric to refer to the death of one Welsh poet in their homeland nearly 75 years ago.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
9/11 Cataclysm and Sustaining Fear
The other day I was reading Deepa Kumar's Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire while traveling on a bus from Rajshahi to my home
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Searching
A pebble ran to a beach
in search of a home
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Using Fictional Techniques to Write History
The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple is the most engrossing book that I've read recently.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Graphic novel ‘Mujib’ launched in English at Dhaka Lit Fest
After successful publications of the graphic novel on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangla, the English version of the first part of the novel series "Mujib" is unveiled at the Dhaka Lit Fest at Bangla Academy in Dhaka.
16 November 2017, 13:00 PM
A collection tinged with variety
Disconnect is an anthology comprised of 20 short stories, edited by Aadiyat Ahmad, Kazi Akib Bin Asad, Rumman R Kalam, and Zoheb Mashiur.
15 November 2017, 18:00 PM
BooK GanG
A person's best company is books. Even in today's world filled with tabs, kindles and smart phones, nothing can beat the magic of a real book in your hands. The scent coming from the pages of a new book is incomparable to anything.
15 November 2017, 18:00 PM
The story of a bat: Cricket in Rwanda
On October 28th, Rwanda will celebrate the opening of its first real and certainly grassiest cricket ground in the capital, Kigali. Brain
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
An Afternoon at Katabon Pet Shop
It took more than an hour for Rupa to reach her destination. After paying the fare she started walking past the pet shops in Katabon.
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Port of Tranquility
On a sun baked plateau, infused with the hue of stained blood and brown bread, caressed by the waves of the immortal spirit, which
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Dhaka on a sad day
With pedal click the rickshaw's here
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Catmoir
Cats are to be hated. And their whining, which some might lovingly define as meowing, is nothing but tiresome whimpering. At least
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
With Sukhu Mia across Bangladesh
Dogs usually live for some ten to thirteen years. Small sized breeds may live a little longer, but the bigger the size, the smaller the
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
In Memoriam
Some memories like unexploded grenades
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
History is Muse
The muse offers herself in full glory;
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
The Listener of Stories
My mother says I have always been a quick learner; I can remember her stories well. I can retell them in front of people, copying her
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry with Emily Dickinson
Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute
Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Flashback
The idea of this poem came to Shahidul in 2012, soon after his Sussex MA dissertation on Modernism, where Eliot was one of his
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM