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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Our Muktijuddho and the Americans
Prof. Mahmudul Huque concludes his book From Autonomy to Independence: The United States, Pakistan and Emergence of
31 March 2017, 18:00 PM
ARCADIA ON THE JALANGI
It was not all utopian: Jones expected his researches, like his law codes, to have practical benefits. While enjoying his Arcadia, he was
31 March 2017, 18:00 PM
ARCADIA ON THE JALANGI
The Jalangiriver snakes across Bengal, as changeable as it is beautiful and impervious to the political divisions that would separate the eastern arm of its mother river Ganga from the western.
24 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Bohemians and Others
Polyphony of expressions, identity, skill and perspective are the dominant links that connect the books by Khademul Islam, Sayeeda T
24 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Sukumar's Myth and Magic
Silly rhymes, nonsensical verses, absurd characters - that's how Sukumar Ray introduced poetry in to my life with his book Abol Tabol (Rhymes without Reasons), an amazing collection of classic Bengali nonsense poetry.
23 March 2017, 18:00 PM
A Surprisingly Not Overdone Fantasy-Romance
A few weeks ago, flipping through TV channels brought me to Beautiful Creatures.
22 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Abul Mansur Ahmad: A Versatile Genius
It was in a most turbulent period of the history of Bengal that Abul Mansur Ahmad fought hard against social prejudice and religious bigotry.
17 March 2017, 18:00 PM
New Books
Akshata Ayna
12 March 2017, 18:00 PM
In the face of death
The Plague, a philosophical novel, written by Albert Camus is considered one of the greatest novels of 20th century. Camus was an
12 March 2017, 18:00 PM
A girl's passage from tears to happiness
JANE Eyre is one of the finest novels by the English fictionist Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). This novel tells us the story of an orphan
12 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Job-Makers in the making
AUTHOR: MD. SABUR KHAN
12 March 2017, 18:00 PM
The Poet and the Emperor
The Emperor became disillusioned &frustrated
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Kamal Chowdhury's soul-searching odyssey
A unique voice that combines passion and fire with utmost discipline, Kamal Chowdhury has been active in Bangladesh's poetry scene
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Language and the Presidency
I ended my last piece with a promise not to waste any more words on the self-publicist and arch-troll Milo Yiannopoulos. I break that
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM
Penetrative Tales on Social Aberrations
As far as the history of modern Bengali literature is concerned, references to Abul Mansur Ahmed's name come up as an inevitable
5 March 2017, 19:43 PM
Men-Women Relationship in Nineteenth Century Bengal
The story begins like this. Dr. Bilkis Rahman read the autobiography of noted author Mir Mosharraf Hossain and discovered a rosy
5 March 2017, 19:38 PM
Of Paths and Walkers
“WHAT is great in the realm of art might not be equally acceptable in the realm of morality; similarly what morality finds laudable
5 March 2017, 19:37 PM
New Books
Payraband kahini is a book of Puthi Sahitto (a special genre of literature written in a mixed vocabulary drawn from Bangla, Arabic,
5 March 2017, 19:31 PM
NUGGETS FROM THE KOLKATA LITERARY MEET 2017
I have always been fascinated by the person and work of the great poet Javed Akhtar and so I am delighted to have a chance to hear
3 March 2017, 18:00 PM
TO RABINDRANATH
You're still fresh in my mind,
3 March 2017, 18:00 PM