Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
REFLECTIONS / Boishakh in fragments: Food, storms, and memory
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Literature
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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
Books
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Apni Ki Alien Dekhte Chan?’: A debut with immense possibility
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
Delightful deliberations on Dhaka
Any book or journal on or about Dhaka would immediately draw the attention and interest of people who were born in this 'impossible' city and who continue to live here despite the daily dose of swearing and grumbling.
1 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A girl's struggle against child marriage
Love in Teary Eyes' is a novel by Shahazada Basunia depicting the love story of Aurnob and adolescent Tripti who revolted against the social taboo of child marriage.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
BRAC through insider lenses
DRIVING Development: A Story of BRAC's Evolution and Effectiveness, Mahabub Hossain, Shib Narayan Kairy, Abdul Bayes, eds., United Press Limited.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
A dream-come-true for Torontonian Bengali Literati
It is not the story of any Scrutiny or of any F R Leavis or L C Knights. It is actually the truth about BLRC Literary Journal, published by Bengali Literary Resource Centre, Canada, hitting the stand.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh selected for India’s highest lit award
Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh has been selected for the highest literary honour in India, the 2016 Jnanpith Award.
25 December 2016, 07:11 AM
My love for you
My mind floats gently on the romance
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
A long influence
'Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'(1915) is a landmark modern poem written by T.S. Eliot in the sense is that it broke all
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
(Continued from the last issue)
Prodyumna gaped at the elderly man in surprise. What secret might he want to share with someone he had known only for a day?
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Her Last Sigh
He had walked miles with a trembling heart
16 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Three POEMS
Is there a silver moonstone for me
16 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
Prodyumna saw the man for the first time at the temple of Dasaparmita, the ten perfections, when people came to watch the snake
16 December 2016, 18:00 PM
A Gritty Magical Setting that Packs a Punch
Although I have a very strong liking for sci-fi, many people jump to the conclusion that I love fantasy as well. I like my outrageous fiction grounded by some form of pseudoscience no matter what it is.
14 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of a subcontinent unchanged
Bollywood has implemented the idea in my mind that the world of Sharatchandra Chattapadhay is one big glittering film set. Dancers swish and swirl on marbled floors, surrounded by music, hookah and intoxicants.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Contours of passion in poetic expression
It was undoubtedly a challenging task and, I must say, it has been accomplished properly, by virtue of the tremendous confidence, acumenand ability of the vested quarter.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
CAMBODIA IN A SOLDIER'S VIEW
It was no one-off that the sword and the pen ran parallel. As a subaltern Sir Winston Churchill hardly twenty three made his maiden venture into the world of literature,” The Story of Malakand Field Force” published in 1897.
11 December 2016, 18:00 PM
From afar, Dylan muses on honor and surprise of Nobel prize
Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sends a message thanking the Swedish academy for awarding him the Nobel prize for literature, an honor the American singer and songwriter believes is about as likely as "standing on the moon."
11 December 2016, 06:12 AM
To Jenny
Daddy died, Black beard grew: mommy left me.
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
ANXIETY
Every morning I wake up with a fear, After so many sweet dreams
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
The new plot against America
In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth imagines two years of alternative history for the United States.
9 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
Renowned poets from all over the country
2 December 2016, 18:00 PM