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
REFLECTIONS / Boishakh in fragments: Food, storms, and memory
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Literature
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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
Books
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
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
Metamorphosis of an Artist as a Heroic Man
The night of November 20th, 1993 was in many ways Kafkaesque for Rashid Karim, one of the major novelists of Bangladesh. The
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Of Ball Gowns, Corsages, and Tuxes
In more ways than one, an anthology is like an assorted box of candies; you never know what's coming next; 21 Proms is no exception to
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Political Economy of Unpeopling of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of Bangladesh
The word 'people' is a very common and widely used term but the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'ing' makes it perfect as the title of Political
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Kazuo Ishiguro's Craft of Recreating Memory and Forgetfulness
That Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this year is significant for various reasons. The declaration of Bob
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
An arson in utopia
“Most communities just happen; the best are planned” - is the motto of a perfectionist community, Shaker Heights.
11 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Romancing the Senses-Hearing
Wikipedia lists the 5 senses thus: taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing, and they are all important, but it's sight that dominates the
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
BATTLE OF THE SENSES?
Battle? What does it mean? One sense against another? No, it's an intellectual tamasha in which six professors of English Literature
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Sixth Sense
1. Both Sigmund Freud and Jung studied the unconscious but did not strongly emphasize the 'Sixth Sense' or the Intuitive one,
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Sense of Touch
It was a pair of forceps that brought me into the world. The metallic tongs pulled me out of my mother's womb. I don't remember the
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Politics of a Violent Decolonization
Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury's Jatiotabad, Samprodaikata O JonogonerMukti: 1905-47 or Nationalism, Communalism and
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Capsule
Our conversations end mid-sentence.
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Who reads young adult books?
How the young adult genre evolved to gain universal readership
5 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize
British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, wins the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.
5 October 2017, 11:14 AM
Snippets
Him: Off to India. What should
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Eternal Song
I celebrate myself—
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Fish of Kalshi
“The whole area will be digital!” says Taimur Reza, the scrawny, bald-and-bearded proprietor of Taimur's betel leaf stand on the
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger
While everyone knows J.D. Salinger for his widely-acclaimed masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, very few are familiar with his other
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Farah Ghuznavi's Fragments of Riversong: Ballads for Our Time
Long ago, I read somewhere that writing short stories is more difficult than writing a novel. While writing about Fragments of
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
For the War Heroines, I will Speak
It was 1996 when I first got hold of Dr. Nilima Ibrahim's Aami Birangana Bolchhi, or rather, the book got hold of me—my soul, my
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Metamorphosis
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock,
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM