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 MISSING MIRROR
Sitting in the armchair on his fourth floor balcony, the young master awaited his morning tea.
31 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Truth-telling and the right to publish
The career of the British concert pianist James Rhodes has been anything but conventional. He was more or less self-taught until he was 13.
31 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Accelerate (XL R8)
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The book under review, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan, received the Man Booker Prize in 2014. The award
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond:An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy
The book's title is eye-catching all right. Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond: An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy, written
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
SLR returns after a two-week hiatus, opening the door to Jean de La Fontaine's world of fables and taking a fictitious fleeting glimpse at what lies beyond our voices, our vision.
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Jean de La Fontaine: A Fountain of Fable
Today's children are familiar with the Harry Potter and Twilight series but once upon a time, Little Louis – the six-year-old son of Louis XIV of France was lucky enough to have the first collection of 124 Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine dedicated to him. La Fontaine and Fables are almost synonymous in French literature.
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
What is Whispered
When the people left the room, wisps of their souls hovered around indefinitely, sniffing at corners and wafting around the legs of chairs.
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman goes on sale
Copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited novel Go Set a Watchman are now on sale in UK bookshops, where it was released at midnight.
14 July 2015, 05:15 AM
Local Governance in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukdar - Senior Programme Manager of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, and author of
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization
Bangladesh abounds in paradoxes. It has confounded many developmental pundits by maintaining a fairly brisk pace of economic growth while continuing
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The Last Nizam
A lucid and compelling history of one of India's most wealthy dynasties and one of its most controversial royals The Last Nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how the heir to India's richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty paddocks of outback Australia.
5 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh: Promise and Performance
Edited by Rounaq Jahan, Bangladesh: Promise and Performance reproduces ten papers (out of the sixteen submitted), with the necessary revisions, that were presented at a conference entitled “Bangladesh at 25” at Columbia University, USA, in December 1996.
5 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Unnoyon Bhabnay Kormosongsthan O Sromobazar (Employment and Labour Market in Development Discourse)
Literature on economics and development in Bangla language can hardly be found. Economists in Bangladesh are generally comfortable in writing academic articles and books in English.
5 July 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Today's SLR starts with the story of a woman who became a mother, fell into being a maid, all in the hope of being…a woman.
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The Maid With Four Daughters
She is dark complexioned, a little on the skinny side and of medium height.
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Bucket List: The Kerala Journal
Today we are heading to Thekkady. The Periyar forests of Thekkady has one of the best wildlife reserves and spice plantations, as well as treks and walks for the adventurous.
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Two Poems by Farah Naz
My heart has no other desire
3 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Fragile Things: Charming and creepy
Fragile Things is not a conventional short story collection. It is quite possibly an odd and approximate sketch of what the inside of Neil Gaiman's head looks like.
1 July 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.” – Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
26 June 2015, 18:00 PM