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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Apni Ki Alien Dekhte Chan?’: A debut with immense possibility
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ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / From protests to power: The journey to Bangladesh’s July Uprising
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THE SHELF / Literature thrives beyond the centre too
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EVENT REPORT / Celebrating diversity and language at “Bhasha Utshob 2025”
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The melancholic song of a young man

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Poetry packed in sense and sensibility

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DC's win finally comes

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Old allegories to explain new times

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