SUNDOWN

As had been happening to him a lot lately, especially during a long wait, he dozed off. It occurred to him that he could not keep his...
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Digital Love

The past few decades have seen remarkable changes people's romantic lives. Even in Bangladesh, where families fixing matches was the social norm for decades...
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM

The Horror! The Horror!

IN 1975, when Chinua Achebe accused Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and harshly deprecated the image of Africa as portrayed in...
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM

SHABDAGHAR

Shabdaghar, a monthly magazine of culture and literature centers on the glorious treasures of Bangla art, culture and literature.
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Beyond a river's lament

So many writers in the field of literature (particularly poetry) from any country have associated (or tried to) nature with human emotion
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM

MARCHING HUMANITY

They are walking altogether - dragging their feet
13 November 2015, 18:00 PM

DEMONS

This is an excerpt of Nesar Nadim's début novel "Demons". The book is available in the bookstores and at rokomari.com
13 November 2015, 18:00 PM

In remembrance of Humayun Ahmed, the wizard of words

Humayun Ahmed is the most celebrated writer of contemporary time and one of the best story tellers in the history of Bangla literature.
13 November 2015, 04:24 AM

A novel on war time rape victims

A SECRET OF A WAR BABY, written by Shahazada Basunia is a novel which mainly focuses on the war time rape victims who made their supreme sacrifices for the sake of achieving independence.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Mind revealing micro-fictions

Anwarul Kabir's latest compilation of fifty two micro-fictions Mind Reader got published in Ekushey Boi Mela of 2015.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift's Allegoric Masterpiece

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the top-ranking English writers of the eighteenth century. He is widely known as a satirist.
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Haruki Murakami's “After Dark”

Haruki Murakami is a popular contemporary Japanese writer with impressive credentials. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages...
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Strange motivations

I'm grateful to the novelist James Meek for introducing me to a new critical term. Reviewing Jonathan Franzen'sPurity (“From Wooden to Plastic”, LRB, 24/09/15), Meek writes that the first appearance of Leila Helou“is couched in the leaden terms of the Unaccountably
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM

FREE WRITING

I have been asked to write a few words about my experience, with the purpose of offering inspiration to young Bangladeshis. But my personal history seems to me so particular as to be of little use to anybody: for one thing, although I was born in Bangladesh, I grew up mainly in the West.
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Buddhism in Bangladesh since 2nd century BCE

WITH the current occurrence of religious intolerance and rise of fundamentalism, the publication of Buddhist Heritage of Bangladesh is a welcome relief.
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Spotlight on an essence of Bangladesh's culture

It goes without saying that rising globalism in this age of information technology has had, is having, and will continue to have for the foreseeable future...
1 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Finish the Book and Die

I first came across the term “Pulling a Robert Jordan” while reading a 2011 New Yorker essay on George R.R. Martin and the treatment some ...
30 October 2015, 18:00 PM

THE SECOND WIFE

In our family my maternal grandmother was known as Choti Amma. She was indeed my nana's second wife. The first wife or Buri Amma...
30 October 2015, 18:00 PM

The genius making sense with his 'nonsense'

In remembrance of Sukumar Ray, the great Bangalee poet, story writer and playwright Bangla literature will forever be indebted to.
30 October 2015, 15:50 PM

Learning To Live and Laugh

When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.
28 October 2015, 18:00 PM