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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ESSAY / Between tradition and taboo: The arranged marriage trope in Bangla dark romance literature
26 February 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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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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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
Nineteen Thirty-Four
A motorcar
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
Portrait of the poet as young woman
Her hair
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
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
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
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
Weaved through history
Publisher: Picador Publications
Date of Publication: July 2016. Price: 6.99 GBP
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM
The Power of Humour
Fun, pun, humor and satire are what characterize most of Syed Manzoorul Islam's works and his newly published Bichitra Swader Galpa(2017)ceases to be an exception.
30 April 2017, 18:00 PM
A Prisoner of Memories
I do not really know. I never really thought I would or could write. The first piece I wrote was of course some old Grimm Brothers' fairy
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM
In Her Blue
A copper coloured dog bit her
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM
Memories Are
Dazzling diamond,
28 April 2017, 18:00 PM