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
Books & Literature
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
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
“Novels cannot always be made only with the Imagination and the Pen”: A Talk with Mostofa Kamal
Novelist Mostofa Kamla was born in the village of Andharmanik under Barisal district on 30 May 1970. He started his career as a
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Freedom Fighter
Ever-undaunted, I am heading forward, ignoring all obstacles,
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Ek Kishorir Juddhajatra : A Painful Tale Told Spontaneously
It’s the tale of a teenage girl’s reminiscence of her journey from home country to a neighbouring country to take refuge during the devastating war of liberation in the year 1971, told by herself at the age of sixty.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
BANGABANDHU AND BANGLADESH: Correcting Contrives and Cunning Corridors
Lamartine — that mediocre poet but cunning politician in France during the revolutions of 1848 — once remarked that history is a trick that we, the living, play upon the dead.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Melancholy Medicine
60 mg of Prozac
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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
Victory I Have Seen
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
Chawk Bazar, 2019
The fire of Muspelheim rages
In the dark alleys where for ages
Ancient arts of beauty have been stockpiled
By the masters of money and mind.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Name of the Beloved
Tell me, Bell,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM