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
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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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Reading Bellow in Chicago
Last month Donald Trump and I happened to be in Chicago at the same time. He was there for the Republican primary. I wasn't.
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Mor Bhabonere Ki Haowa
What wind is it lilting my thoughts so amazingly?
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Enigma of Articles
Language mold me, Its structure and form bind me
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
BEFORE THE CITY IS DESTROYED
If the city is razed to the ground, the last clock stopped ticking...
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Smart Stories
The title and the epigraph of Zafar Anjum's Kafka in Ayodhya give a good indication of the central concerns of the short story collection...
13 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The life journey of a theatre actress
Binodini is the life story adapted from her two autobiographical notes titled My Story and My Stage Acting.
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh: Reform Agenda for Local Governance
Local government is a constitutionally mandated system in our country.
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Muhammad Zamir has worn, and continues to wear, different hats. A former career diplomat...
8 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Tagore's encounters with luminaries of the West
Rabindranath Tagore, during his visits abroad, he engaged in intriguing conversations with brilliant minds from across the world – starting from British sci-fi master HG Wells to French dramatist-art historian Romain Rolland to genius German physicist Albert Einstein – where he spoke about the correlation of art and science, international relations and religion, and multiculturalism.
8 May 2016, 08:08 AM
OH TO BE IN PARIS
It's over half a century since France – its thinkers, writers, artists, film-makers – became an object of fascination with
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Triumph of the Snake Goddess: an excerpt
Behula silently prayed to Padma and stepped on the walkway. Even a fly falling on it was sliced instantly. Nothing
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
A Sort of National Epic for Bangladesh: Kaiser Haq's The Triumph of the Snake Goddess
Kaiser Haq, The Triumph of the Snake Goddess. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2015
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
THE TIPPING POINT
Before going into an in-depth review, just to ensure a better and more meaningful reading experience, let me give you an outside view of how Malcolm Gladwell non-fictions are formulated and constructed.
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Tagore for Hipsters
A compilation of some of his lesser-known works.
4 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Tête–à–tête
and where will you be when I feel pain?
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Banalata Sen
Thousands of years, I've been knocking around the world's ways
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Sarbojaya and Surabala
Written words last forever. Women and children in masterly works of fiction are endearing characters. The endearment lasts a lifetime.
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Stories for the Summer
It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.
27 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Words and phrases you won’t believe Shakespeare invented
The English language wouldn’t be the same without Shakespeare. He is credited with inventing over 1700 common words and phrases we still use today
23 April 2016, 15:31 PM
We Are At Odds
Time changes
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM