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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EVENT REPORT / Celebrating diversity and language at “Bhasha Utshob 2025”
26 February 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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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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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
Capsule
Our conversations end mid-sentence.
6 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
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
Byajstuti: Sadness of Daily Life
Anarchy has become like daily soap in our day-to-day life. Most of us seem to be “know all, see all” types, but say nothing.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewelry
“I started collecting stories and ideas about rings over the years... Over these years, wherever I went, no matter what people asked me
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Metamorphosis
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock,
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Key holes
We hide our wet lace behind a trellis of plants, our voices honeyed from jaded soap operas.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
RADA LOOMS
Bret and I were marching resolutely towards our Holy Grail, waiting for us only a couple of hundred meters or so away, though still out
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM