Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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
Book Review: Nonfiction / Love, wounds, and the making of ‘Hemingway’s Women’
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
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
Books
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
Manabjameen: Untilled Earth
Set in the troubled last quarter of the twentieth century, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Manabjameen is an expansive saga that charts the
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Yoga for Dummies
This revised edition of Yoga For Dummies provides 25 percent new and revised content, presenting new concepts for the yoga
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In this age of post 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Johnny Depp fans, very few people are unaware of Washington Irving's tale of fear and
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
A convergence of religions through Dharma, not swords. Friendship as an expression of political resistance.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Bucket List: The Kerala Journal
I am up early today. It's a brilliant morning and I can hear the chirping of new birds.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
In search of a creative community
While I'm editing my novel, I find it helpful to read something entirely unrelated. Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, subtitled The Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives (Bloomsbury 2011), tells the story of a group of radical English writers over a period of a dozen years in the early nineteenth century.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Night It Rained
The wind builds up its frenzy.
The clouds rob my sky.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Early Days
The May sun scorches Krishnachuras blaze The mind is moribund.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
First Kadam
You have gifted me rainy day's First Kadam flower, O my beloved I offer you songs of monsoon rain.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
LAUGHING LIKE RAY'S CHILDREN
People my age are one of the last few generations that grew up in Dhaka without twenty-four hour television or the Internet. We would read.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Migrants
They had set sail in hope in dinghies or rickety boats,
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Dejection: A Sonnet
I would love to be proven wrong that day,
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
This week Shahpar Selim does a double take on a childhood favourite, reminding us that while we are ‘LOLing’ at the world around us (or in our computers), we must remember to laugh at ourselves too.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
WANT TO PLAY?
Grace MacBride and the other five partners of her software company, Monkeewrench, have created a new game titled “Serial Killer Detective'' where the good guy always catches the bad guy.
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Decoding Rooppur...
In the opening, the book printed by Madhyama Media and Publications points to the fact that publishers in this country – though slowly but are finally becoming skilled. Hat’s off to the publisher.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Frog By Mo Yan
The pages are full of references to modern Chinese political history and its cultural and social practices.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is both a spiritual treatise and a decisive effort of ancient literature.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah
AN affectionate biography of a much-maligned king who had the misfortune to be on the throne when the East India Company decided to usurp him.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Here are the winners of our latest SLR writing competition.
15 May 2015, 18:00 PM
CHANGE
He seemed to be in a paradoxical state of discomfort and pleasure. “It's as if you've never tasted anything spicy before,” I said. “You have to pay for that, mind you.” “Of course I will,” he grinned. Soon enough, the hot sauce began its attack and he began to draw in cool air to soothe his burning tongue. “Oi, give me a cold Coke!” “All right, hold your horses.” I replied, walking over to the refrigerator. A few minutes later he had emptied the bottle. I shook my head at him wearily.
15 May 2015, 18:00 PM