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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The Colour of Season
The winter has begun from of 1st of June officially in Australia. I wonder, if the season does follow the calendar.
12 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Why humans need to communicate
Two concepts—communications and communication—mistakenly or unknowingly are used interchangeably in the applied filed of communication in Bangladesh.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
A 'solipsistic' epic…
This is the third of the six-volume autobiography of the global sensation Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard. His magnum opus “My Struggle” has been compared to French novelist Marcel Proust's philosophical musings in “In Search of Lost Time”.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Ode to July
In the yearly cycle of months, we are now well into July. In season's
5 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Lost
I have a feeling of unease,
5 August 2016, 18:00 PM
A peek into the life of an alienated youth
Set within and on the outskirts of Dhaka City, Like A Diamond In The Sky (Shazia Omar, Penguin 2009), is a novel that addresses the alienation of Bangladeshi youth through the struggles of a 21 year old drug addict, Deen, and his 'khor' friends.
5 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The passer-by
‘Shaggy rags carpet the sky with tiny pores for rays to penetrate,
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Fiction and the unconscious
The outcome of the referendum seems certain to divorce us from the European Union. But Britain itself has already been internally fractured by an angry campaign full of dishonest threats and promises. The leading promoters of Brexit were mainly responsible.
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Traveller
The traveller walks on, singing as if undone,
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Breaking Writer's Block
Whether it's a page or screen devoid of words, writer's block can get crippling. Most of us know “advice” such as taking a walk, having coffee, changing writing tool or going on vacation, is hardly helpful.
27 July 2016, 18:00 PM
At Last, I Came Back
At last, I came back.
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM
LINES FROM EXILE
See, such a beautiful sparrow is
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Man
It was midnight. The man was lying dead; his head had hit the edge of the sidewalk and then cracked open, the blood was slowly but
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Back to Printed Books
Lured by the countless “Addicted to the smell of books” posts and photos of stacks for summer reading, I decided that perhaps it might not be a terrible idea to revert back to paperbacks and hardcover books.
20 July 2016, 18:00 PM
New Books
New Books
17 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Mankind's power to overcome adversities
The novel “Mysterious Island” by Jules Verne is an adventure fiction which mixes mystery with mankind's power to overcome hostile circumstances. It was first published in 1874 written in a classical narrative form. This is really exhilarating for me to review this book after 150 years of its publication. Certainly, its writer Jules Verne has been successful that people still remember his works with honour which are still alive and unquestionably entertaining.
17 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangabandhu rejuvenated for children
Amid a plethora of books on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Husne Ara Shahed's “Amader Priyo Bangabandhu” comes as a praiseworthy venture.
17 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Mahabharata viewed in a new perspective
MAHABHARATA, an ancient Indian epic, literally means 'Great India' and propagates 'eternal truth' for humanity. Of all the epics of the
17 July 2016, 18:00 PM
An Acrostic
Not to embrace.
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Leader
You are oblivious of the ache in your own heart...
15 July 2016, 18:00 PM