Noora Shamsi Bahar

For centuries, literature asked us to believe that language is more than information, that it’s a rich repository of history, memory, grief, longing, humour, silence, and entire ways of seeing and making sense of the world.

All Quiet on the Western Front (Little, Brown and Company, 1929), a semi-autobiographical novel authored by a German World War I veteran, Erich Maria Remarque, is one of the greatest anti-war works of literature—one that was published nearly a century back and still holds relevance today

Despite being quite the nerd, I found no solace in education.

Men objected to the public display of sanitary napkins at the Ekushey Boi Mela.

Grooming of minors by paedophilic adults seems to be an overlooked yet pressing societal anomaly

Unsurprisingly, the film’s directors, Ron Clements and John Musker, are white, and it is almost as if “whiteness” prevents artistes, such as film directors, from portraying the non-white peoples with a non-colonial lens.

Should we believe that the same man who didn’t believe in women’s right to freedom of choice is now a changed “reformist”?

The parallel between the 2024 Met Gala and 'The Garden of Time,' a short speculative fiction written by JG Ballard, is uncanny.