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