MADE IN AMERICA!

Though times have changed, in the several visits I made to the US over the last twenty years, one headache has remained constant –
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Portraits of Bengali Life in a Bygone Era

Light, heavy, or both? History offers the reader a choice among all three, or a combination of them.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Still Young at Heart and Eloquent

At 80, which he reached on May 19, Hasnat Abdul Hye can look back, and certainly feel a sense of pride, accomplishment, and joy for a productive life, where he has not only been a leading bureaucrat of the country, but also a prolific author of distinction.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Karagarer Rojnamcha: A Jail Diary with a Difference

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's entire life bears testimony to his lasting love and passion for Bangladesh and Bengalis.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Aphorisms of Humayun Azad

Mohammad Shafiqul Islam's book of translation, Aphorisms of Humayun Azad appears to be almost as pithy and barbed as the famous
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Their Lives Written with Blood

Published as early as 1978, Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor is an acclaimed fictionalization of prostitution in post-Liberation War
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Islam in Performance: Contemporary Plays from South Asia

As its title suggests, this is a collection of plays from South Asia which deal with the social and political performance of Islam in the
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Religion, Diaspora and the Politics of a Homing Desire

Let me dedicate my inaugural musing in this page to the writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora spread all over the world; after all, I
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Is Feminism a Sell-out? Andi Zeisler's In-depth Analysis of Modern Day Feminism

Last women's day, I saw many statuses on my news feed preaching many different things.
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Tagore’s memories with Nagor

From 1891-1901 Tagore was continuously in Bengal. He used to come in Naogaon’s Patisar to observe the estate’s condition till 1937. His grandfather Prince Dwarkanath Tagore bought this estate in 1830. Actually to look after that estate Tagore came to Patisar in 1891.
8 May 2017, 06:26 AM

My Tent of Hymns

Our house rules required us siblings to sit before our father every morning for a session on the literary classics.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum

This remarkable book records a unique feat. In sequenced essays, its many contributors led by their mastermind...
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Rabindranath and the Question of Nationalism

To read Rabindranath Tagore's lectures on Nationalism delivered in 1916 in Japan and in America is to feel that he positively detested it.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Visva-Bharati: A Civil Public Space for All Ages

All of us are products of our times – but while most of us are carried on time's shoulders only a few are able to carry time on theirs.
5 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Living and dying by the code

“How many governments have fallen,” the prince had gone on, “And how many kingdoms have been swept from the face of the earth, and Orosh is still standing.”
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Times Food Guide Kolkata 2014

The Times of India Guides are targeted at both Local Residents, and Domestic and International Tourists.
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Extreme Food - What to Eat When Your Life Depends on it...

"There's no getting away from it; i've eaten some pretty extreme things in my time - live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung,
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Our Lifeline

Professor Anwarul Karim, a noted educationist and researcher, is best known to the people within and outside the country as a very
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM