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24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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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
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10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Books & Literature
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19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
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19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
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12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
The Spy who Lives on
It was the summer of 1965. A tall, young man with dark shades in his early 30s got on his motorbike and embarked on a long arduous journey of over 350 kilometers starting from Dhaka and finally arrived at Kaptai...
25 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi worker who published book started by scribbling on cement bags
Angry at a former boss for threatening to cut the workers' pay, Bangladeshi construction worker Md Mukul Hossine starts scribbling poetry on the bags of cement.
23 May 2016, 08:53 AM
Nurjahan Begum laid to rest
After two phases of namaj-e-janaza, Nurjahan Begum, the editor and publisher of weekly magazine Begum, is buried at Martyred Intellectual Graveyard in Dhaka’s Mirpur. She passes away at a Dhaka hospital at the age of 91. Born on June 4, 1925, she is a daughter of prominent journalist Mohammad Nasiruddin, editor of Bangla literary journal Saogat and awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2011.
23 May 2016, 05:10 AM
Translated from the Bengali: SM Shahrukh
Hunger engulfs me: In my belly, the feeling
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
The Wedding Ring
Sonargaon Hotel had not started then in Dhaka. The Shahbagh Hotel was turned into Institute of Post Graduate Medicine. The elite
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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