Books

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

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 Books

BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / From protests to power: The journey to Bangladesh’s July Uprising

5 March 2025, 18:00 PM Books

ESSAY / Between tradition and taboo: The arranged marriage trope in Bangla dark romance literature

26 February 2025, 18:00 PM Books

EVENT REPORT / Celebrating diversity and language at “Bhasha Utshob 2025”

26 February 2025, 18:00 PM Books

BOI MELA 2025 / 5 books to look out for at this year’s Boi Mela

19 February 2025, 18:00 PM Books

Sodium: (Na)mesake

Have you seen my City?

29 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Cricket and Visions

On March 18th, a poet named John was hit in the eye and knocked out by a ball while playing an informal game of cricket. Perhaps

29 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Not Like This

The wise their moments spare will spend

22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Independence, how this word became ours

With the excitement of waiting for a poem to be composed

22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Charon’s Obol

“Mukti?” The word was a tremor of butterfly wings.

22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Hits a Century

Thanks to Google I have, at a click of the mouse, discovered that in our time around 165 members of the literary professions have

22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

The 1971 we don’t talk about

According to estimations, around 200,000-400,000 women were tortured and raped by the Pakistani Military and their collaborators

22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

The Olden Times of 2019

Cowsar sat there, looking outside his garden at the Red Planet's artificial-earthen beauty. The red earth looked surprisingly pretty in the blinding light of the sun.

20 March 2019, 18:00 PM

From Gitabitan

What made you leave hesitatingly at twilight? What made you falter at the threshold and look back?

15 March 2019, 18:00 PM

From Tungipara

Sitting beside the secluded sepulcher Praying for the salvation of your soul,

15 March 2019, 18:00 PM

If you ask me exactly when and how the Mujibnagar govt.-in-exile was first assembled, I cannot give you the answer right away, mostly because too many possible answers are floating in the air as I speak.

15 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Dreams & Shadows: Perspectives on Multifarious Issues

“When white people commit acts of terrorism, we term them mentally ill. When governments commit acts of war and terrorism, we call it Foreign Policy. When a Muslim commits an act of terror, we call it terrorism.

15 March 2019, 18:00 PM

A Writer's Enigma

I cannot write. For a month, it lingers. Every morning, I sit in front of my laptop and hope to write something new, something noble. But nothing comes out. Not a word, not a sentence. As if the sea of creativity has dried up.

15 March 2019, 18:00 PM