On A Street

Nanga Pagla the sky‑clad one
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Autumn Fragment

November, where are the mists of yesteryear?
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

DLF DIARIES

I wrote this for you, Mamma—for being insufferable on Day 1,
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM WINS THE DSC PRIZE FOR 2017

Anuk Arudpragasam has been announced the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage at the Dhaka Lit on the 18th November, 2017.
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

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

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

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

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