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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NIGHTMARE
When did these dead people awake from their graves?
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Rising of the Dead
I stepped inside the house through the drawing room doors. The smell of death assailed my senses. The smell was stale – all pervasive.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Wisdom of a Revivalist
Sri Chaitanya Deb (1486-1533) was an interesting and charismatic personality of the 16th century in Bengal, Assam, Orissa and across the eastern India.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Tribute to a scholar
They remember him as a loving husband and as an inspiring father. Other articles are written by his relatives, colleagues, students and friends in great admiration. In their portrayal, Prof. Rehman is illustrated as an exceptionally gentle, compassionate, amiable and vastly knowledgeable person.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of Quarter Century of Development
When Azizur Rahman Khan writes something on the economy of Bangladesh, one needs to take note.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Poet Syed Shamsul Haq flown to London for treatment
Eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq is flown to UK for treatment as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.
16 April 2016, 12:49 PM
The Tale of a Slave
It often happens nowadays
That I do not find my head
Spine, is now a distant memory!
A question crops up constantly, at birth
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
By the end of July 1907, news reaches Atiya through a student named Parmeshwar Lal that Iqbal's patriotic songs published in Makhzan have become so popular that they are being sung in the whole of northern India: 'houses, streets, alleys resounded with Iqbal's national songs, which created a feeling of nationalism unknown in India before.'
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
I Need to Believe
In the name of justice...
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Still struggling after 1971…..
MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind
This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Lighter Side of History
I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Driftwood
Her body lies like
Driftwood on the sand
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Bereavement
Things were not so rosy at first,
But soon they were straightened out.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
Ten years after Iqbal is born in Sialkot in undivided India, a girl named Atiya is born thousands of miles away in Istanbul. Just as Iqbal's father ran a business in Sialkot, Atiya's father Hasan Ali Fyzee (1827–1903) ran a business in that Turkish metropolis.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover. Just before this takeover..
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
My Days in National Book Centre
Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
From Subjective Impulses to Universal Echoes
This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
On the eve of India partition…
To me, Aynakhal Tea Estate is a metaphor for a world unknown to all but only those who work there: the British Mangers and Assistant Managers, the Bengali Clerks known as Babus, and the workers called Coolies. This world is a lot different from the one we live in; for it has its own rules, its own code of conduct, and challenges and dangers ...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM