Boi Mela begins. Are publishers prepared?

First, the government authorities are always behind in planning and leave things for the last minute to reach concrete decisions, and often, these decisions don’t take into consideration pragmatic solutions that are sustainable and maintainable in the long term.
16 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Mujib: First graphic novel in Bangladesh on Bangabandhu now at Boi Mela

The first graphic novel in Bangladesh depicting Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's life is now available at Ekushey Boi Mela.
16 February 2022, 14:17 PM

PM opens Ekushey Book Fair 2022

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2022, the annual event of booklovers and publishers, in Dhaka.
15 February 2022, 11:00 AM

Before the Last Breath

After so many years, more than a decade or so, when you pass my home, don’t forget to take a look at the humble roof of haystack and wattle if not the humble me waiting to have a look at your eyes for an epoch.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Beach Bodies

North Avenue beach was crowded with the Gold Coast moneyed, the downtown young and rich, the tanned, tight-bodied volleyballers, all of them white, and a healthy portion of the rest of the city’s masses, a United Colors of Benetton sampler, among which numbered the five of us. School was out for the summer, the next three months sprawled before us like the city from the Skydeck of Sears Tower.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Down the memory lanes of journalism

Sirjaul islam Quadir is both an individual and a representative of his time says Prof. Sirajul Islam Chowdhury in his ever-eloquent words put together in the forward to the book.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM

Bangladeshi expat, Mohiuddin Ahmed, releases book on religion and reformation

In his debut work, Keno Proyojon Dormochintar Punorgothon (September 2021), published by Rabbul Islam Khan, Chief Executive of Kushtia Prokashon Amla, Mirpur, Kushtia, Toronto-based Bangladeshi expatriate Mohiuddin Ahmed adds to the body of work onIslamic Reformation in Bangla.
5 February 2022, 13:00 PM

On Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq’s PhD thesis: ‘Political Parties in India’

In a book launch held at the capital’s Bengal Shilpalay today, Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation and University Press Limited held a discussion session on Professor Razzaq’s Political Parties in India, his 1950 PhD thesis for the London School of Economics, published now for the first time in book form. 
29 January 2022, 14:30 PM

Dilemma

Pushing the glass door open, Anita heaves a sigh of relief as she leaves the office for lunch. The sun is blazing down outside. Sometimes this place feels like a gold cage.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Empty Mirror

Come dawn, I am a daughter Sweet Obedient Caring
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Memories of Kabul An Evening to Cherish

It was in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 24th December, 1972, when suddenly in the late afternoon the first snow flurries of the season began.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Pakistani artist illustrates Begum Rokeya's ‘Sultana’s Dream’

A designer and illustrator whose work focuses on human rights, feminism, and South Asian identity, Malik has just created an artwork based on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s novella Sultana’s Dream (1905), which imagines a feminist utopia where women dominate the world of science, labour, and their homes. 
24 January 2022, 09:46 AM

Masud Rana continues to be a pop-culture phenomenon

The prolific writer had a dream of starting his own press, and with just BDT 10,000 from his father, he created Segunbagicha Press.
23 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Winners of Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar announced

Winners of the Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2021 were announced in eleven categories recently.
23 January 2022, 12:56 PM

‘Logo Land’: Bangladeshi author Amit Biswas on logos of the Netherlands

Logo Land  (Lecturis, 2021), a new book by Bangladeshi author Amit Biswas, takes a look at the origin and meaning of logos, exploring the depths of shapes, colours, and forms in the municipality logos in the Netherlands. 
23 January 2022, 09:06 AM

Reflections

Far away from the crowd, far from the glaring chaos; out of the blaring car horns,  out of the shrieks of loneliness, out of all the madness that surrounds; Out of the city, out of the cacophony I chose to go and find solace.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Poetry by Manu Dash

You thought Time would play thumri while in the outskirts of desire
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Mojaffor Hossain’s All the Sadeqs are getting killed

The most naïve boy of Dhabaldhola village had been murdered. The decapitated body lay on the demarcation line between the Bangari field and the Taro crop-field.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Farewell, Qazida

In contrast to his extroverted, charismatic literary creation “Masud Rana”, Qazi Anwar Husain was a man of solitude. Yesterday, his farewell towards the eternity happened similarly -- in a quiet and unpretentious manner.
20 January 2022, 18:00 PM

“When I started reading, I had no idea what to expect.”

A brilliant conversation about literature, characters, and The Book Thief
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM