‘Belonging’: Sonia Gandhi memoir set for November 10 release
19 August 2026
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Books
John Cusack backs NEET protesters, shares Arundhati Roy’s article
24 July 2026
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Entertainment
Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026
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Books & Literature
Veteran singer Ferdausi Rahman’s autobiography launched at Bengal Shilpalay
8 July 2026
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Books
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
3 July 2026
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Literature
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026
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The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026
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What to read
Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026
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Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026
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Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026
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Books & Literature
The story of a bat: Cricket in Rwanda
On October 28th, Rwanda will celebrate the opening of its first real and certainly grassiest cricket ground in the capital, Kigali. Brain
10 November 2017
An Afternoon at Katabon Pet Shop
It took more than an hour for Rupa to reach her destination. After paying the fare she started walking past the pet shops in Katabon.
10 November 2017
Port of Tranquility
On a sun baked plateau, infused with the hue of stained blood and brown bread, caressed by the waves of the immortal spirit, which
10 November 2017
Dhaka on a sad day
With pedal click the rickshaw's here
10 November 2017
Catmoir
Cats are to be hated. And their whining, which some might lovingly define as meowing, is nothing but tiresome whimpering. At least
10 November 2017
With Sukhu Mia across Bangladesh
Dogs usually live for some ten to thirteen years. Small sized breeds may live a little longer, but the bigger the size, the smaller the
10 November 2017
In Memoriam
Some memories like unexploded grenades
3 November 2017
History is Muse
The muse offers herself in full glory;
3 November 2017
The Listener of Stories
My mother says I have always been a quick learner; I can remember her stories well. I can retell them in front of people, copying her
3 November 2017
Poetry with Emily Dickinson
Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with
3 November 2017
Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute
Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
3 November 2017
Flashback
The idea of this poem came to Shahidul in 2012, soon after his Sussex MA dissertation on Modernism, where Eliot was one of his
27 October 2017
Was Marx Really Right?
Readers familiar with Terry Eagleton's work would have no doubt from the title of his Why Marx Was Right that it would offer a strong
27 October 2017
October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania
Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;
27 October 2017
Some Scattered Thoughts on the Russian Revolution
It seems our era has just stumbled upon its second major crisis—one brought about fascism. The rise of xenophobic racism, religious
27 October 2017
A novel swinging back and forth through time
Set in the North of London in the beginning, Zadie Smith's fifth novel, “Swing Time”, tells us the story of two childhood friends whose paths diverge as they grow up, and the challenges of growing up fuel the diversion.
25 October 2017
Chile poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer, deepen mystery: Experts
A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
21 October 2017
How Cute Button Eyes Are, Really?
There are "children's" books which will make you travel down memory lane, and then there are "children's" books which will make you
20 October 2017
The Forty Rules of Love
This Turkish author has made her presence felt in the global literary scene with her ten novels over the last two decades. Among her
20 October 2017
Intriguing Statecraft and Enigmatic Politics
Looked at from a political perspective, Bangladesh will always seem to be a land of democratic upheavals and agitations that has
20 October 2017