Reflection / 'July 1. Too Tired.' Kafka felt it; so do we
1 July 2026, 19:43 PM
More than a century later, his two-word confession still captures the exhaustion that sleep cannot cure
1 July 2026, 19:43 PM
Father's Day / Sooner or later, we all become our fathers
21 June 2026, 19:27 PM
In gestures, phrases and old griefs, one generation continues to live inside another
21 June 2026, 19:27 PM
Pop Culture / The great career renaissance on OTT
19 June 2026, 15:59 PM
Long-form storytelling has created space for actors whose careers mainstream cinema interrupted, underestimated or abandoned
19 June 2026, 15:59 PM
Trump at 80: The man who turned himself into an American era
14 June 2026, 20:21 PM
His journey from real estate spectacle to a second presidency is a story of ambition, grievance, resilience and relentless self-invention
14 June 2026, 20:21 PM
Reflection / Why a film from 1976 still feels like a South Asian middle-class story in 2026
31 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Beneath the romance and poetry of 'Kabhi Kabhie' lies a social truth that still endures
31 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Pop culture / 007 First Light: A Bond for the age of becoming
30 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Video game recasts the world’s most enduring male fantasy as a young man shaped by uncertainty, instruction and growth
30 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Reflection / The cutlet and the ‘journey by train’ essay
29 May 2026, 12:41 PM
How a snack says more about travel, memory and the subcontinent than a classroom composition ever could
29 May 2026, 12:41 PM
Eid reflection / The real gore is hunger
28 May 2026, 19:00 PM
What once felt like fear of slaughter became, in adulthood, a confrontation with poverty
28 May 2026, 19:00 PM
A ritual of red
Rituals are sanctioned, seasonal, even sacred, yet leave residues that can’t be laundered
28 May 2026, 13:08 PM
Goatfather: A caprine comedy
Remember that story of an overpriced goat and its mysterious buyer?
26 May 2026, 21:07 PM
For those who left but never departed: Nazrul’s ‘Ami chirotore dure chole jabo’
Through Nazrul’s words and Firoza Begum’s voice, farewell becomes something more unsettling: a promise never to disappear
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
‘Cha khaben?’: The question that slows the world down
On World Tea Day today, a reflection on how the simple offer continues to turn tea into a ritual of pause, warmth and human connection
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
Murders we write
What happens when murder is no longer an exception to be solved, but a social erosion to be recorded?
19 May 2026, 22:33 PM
The children Mother’s Day leaves behind
For some children, love arrives as control, affection as currency and home as a place of survival
10 May 2026, 19:30 PM
Do you know your coffee?
A quiet coffee revolution is underway in Bangladesh
8 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Symphony No. 9: The sound Beethoven could no longer hear, but the world still can't forget
Deaf, isolated and tormented, Beethoven created a work more than two centuries ago that still speaks with startling urgency
7 May 2026, 19:14 PM
What is compartmentalisation in a world full of noise?
It is not indifference, but the quiet discipline of deciding what the mind can carry and what must wait
4 May 2026, 20:29 PM
Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
On her birth centenary, Harper Lee’s spare canon endures as a vast moral inheritance
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Watching Al Pacino grow older, and growing older with him
Revisiting Corleone, Carlito, Montana, Lefty and Slade becomes less an act of fandom than a study of what ambition and survival look like with age
25 April 2026, 17:01 PM
Between memory and mirage: The many lives of Vladimir Nabokov
How exile, memory and aesthetic daring made him one of literature’s most intoxicating minds
22 April 2026, 23:04 PM
‘Gupto’: The adjective that took on a life of its own
In post-August Bangladesh, ‘gupto’ has drifted from description into accusation
22 April 2026, 19:41 PM
April 21, 1526: The day a new subcontinent began
Five centuries later, the first Mughal victory lives on in the plural identity it helped shape across South Asia
21 April 2026, 21:00 PM
The voice that reimagined itself in every era: Asha Bhosle (1933-2026)
Playful, sensuous, daring and timeless, she transformed with every musical age while making each one unmistakably her own
12 April 2026, 20:50 PM
Bluff, bargain and backtrack: The Trumpian art of the deal
From threats of devastation to a last-minute ceasefire, the Iran episode followed a familiar Trump script
10 April 2026, 17:29 PM
All the President’s Men: When journalism became cinema and cinema became history
50 years on, the film feels startlingly contemporary
9 April 2026, 19:44 PM
What does the arrest of Australia’s most-decorated living soldier mean for war crimes justice?
Ben Roberts-Smith’s arrest has opened a broader debate over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and whether justice can arrive after years of denial
7 April 2026, 20:44 PM
On this day 120 years ago, still images learned to move
J. Stuart Blackton’s pioneering 1906 film turned chalk drawings into motion, opening a new chapter in the history of visual storytelling
6 April 2026, 21:00 PM
Gregory Peck and the lost art of masculinity without swagger
More than a classic Hollywood star, he remains a reminder that dignity and gentleness can be their own kind of power
5 April 2026, 21:40 PM