The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
What to read
Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
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
Features
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
A walk in the wake of destruction
In all likelihood these [the rings] are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the planet and was destroyed by its [Saturn's] tidal effect...
20 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Between the Covers of Books
“I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Liberation War Novel for Our Time
The title of Habib's work is suggest why did our valiant freedom fighters liberate this country? Why did the martyrs go through hell for
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Men, Memories and Missing Pieces
Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami, ISBN 9780451494, Bond Street Books, 2017
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Diversities in Diasporas
Keeping in view the dichotomy of diversity within unity and unity within diversity, the Department of English, Independent University
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Benimadhob
Benimadhob!My darling Benimadhob!
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Poetry
Poetry springs from childhood memories. It's mother's pale face
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Writing April
We knew each other only through our articles. I liked Tulip Chowdhury's dreamy, messy, stream of consciousness essays. She didn't
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
You Said
Notun Bazar was burning, burning!
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Paradise Lost-Dhaka in the 1950s and 60s
Memory always plays tricks on us in old age and nostalgia makes the past appear perennially serene then.
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
From Niketan to Mohakhali: A Rickshaw Odyssey
For the three years that I lived in Niketan, Gulshan, I commuted to my workplace in Mohakhali by rickshaw. Each day was an adventure then
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Adventure, Nostalgia and Puran Dhaka
Shahriar Kabir, one of the first and finest children's and "Young Adult" authors of Bangladesh, hails from Old Dhaka. Most fictional works
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Excerpts from The Book of Dhaka
“There is no sound inside the bus now. The thumping in the passengers' chests gets louder in the quiet and the sound throbs inside
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Writing Dhaka
You can judge a book by its cover, banal stereotypes notwithstanding. The red lines on the slightly green graph paper, featuring on
7 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Linguistic Examination of Twelve Stories
As part of the Library of Bangladesh series, Dhaka Translation Center (DTC) has published a translation of twelve stories written by Hasan Azizul Haq, one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Bengali literature.
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Like Dark Clouds are Adorned
The rainy season is here. At this time, the river next to our home is filled to the brim.
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2017 TO ANNOUNCE ITS WINNER AT THE DHAKA LITERARY FESTIVAL
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has announced that it would be awarding its next winner at the Dhaka Literary Festival (DLF)
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
JIMMY, THE DOG
I want to write a poem about a dog
though I've already written some poems
that feature dogs. Sometimes I want
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
The Acting Bug and the Curious Adventure of a Long-haired Dude
I guess I was bitten by the acting bug in my mother's womb. Otherwise, how does one explain my fascination for the theater, theatrics,
29 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Unique Glimpses: A Portrait of Bangladesh Through Their Eyes
Until recently not many people were aware of autism or thought about it. The subject was a social taboo. No one talked about it and
23 June 2017, 18:00 PM