Reaction / Murders we write
19 May 2026, 22:33 PM
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
Reflection / The children Mother’s Day leaves behind
10 May 2026, 19:30 PM
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?
8 May 2026, 18:00 PM
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
7 May 2026, 19:14 PM
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
Reflection / What is compartmentalisation in a world full of noise?
4 May 2026, 20:29 PM
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
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
On her birth centenary, Harper Lee’s spare canon endures as a vast moral inheritance
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Reflection / Watching Al Pacino grow older, and growing older with him
25 April 2026, 17:01 PM
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
22 April 2026, 23:04 PM
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
Moon River, through bougainvillea
An April pink moon turns blossom into melody
3 April 2026, 22:52 PM
Think different, pay dearly: The apple of our i at 50
How the trillion-dollar brand turned technology into theology
1 April 2026, 20:00 PM
Why does the Middle East have so much oil?
Region’s enormous reserves are the result of ancient seas, organic-rich sediments, ideal rock layers and millions of years of geological stability
31 March 2026, 22:00 PM
Long before fake news and algorithms, this 1986 film saw how truth could be shaped and weaponised
New Delhi Times: A film on analogue era journalism, a mirror for the digital age
29 March 2026, 18:30 PM
A fall that is not autumn
March recasts the meaning of falling leaves
24 March 2026, 21:30 PM
50 years on it still echoes, "You talkin’ to me?"
Half a century later, Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” remains a quiet autopsy of urban souls learning to live without being seen
23 March 2026, 18:33 PM
Rebecca: A ghost story without a ghost
Hitchcock’s adaptation turns a dead woman into a living force
22 March 2026, 20:00 PM
Eid in the shadow of war
Stripped of abundance, the festival endures across conflict zones as a quiet act of resistance
22 March 2026, 16:00 PM
The iconic duo that anchors Eid celebrations across Bangladesh
A plate of polao-roast: Eid’s signature pairing
21 March 2026, 21:00 PM
A crescent moon for the broken
Why Eid does not arrive the same for everyone, and how a classic ghazal gives voice to that quiet divide
21 March 2026, 20:00 PM
When Chuck Norris died, the myth kept standing
Action icon and martial arts maestro dies at 86, leaving behind a legacy
20 March 2026, 22:30 PM
The song that became Chand Raat’s anthem
Nearly a century on, ‘Ramzaner oi rozar sheshe’ continues to define the sound, spirit, and soul of Eid’s eve in Bangladesh
20 March 2026, 19:00 PM