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
Hope
The pale colour of an exhausted day
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Blackbird
On the beautiful wings of the Blackbird,
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Nazrul's Immortal Works
The resourceful poems and lyrics in this anthology uphold human dignity, religious harmony, truth, beauty, pain and love. His poems
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
A Tribute to Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was one of the most charismatic public figures. She was also probably the most enigmatic and intensely private in her
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Women Empowerment in Bangladesh of the Forest, Tree & Grassroots
The issue of emancipating women raises obvious questions: Is there a final point; indeed, is the starting point similar across countries;
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Allusion
My paradise is regained...
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
IMMORTAL RABINDRANATH
Rabindranath keeps awake by you every day...
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Many of the theatre persons of Bangladesh left the country in 1971 for Calcutta and had an active exposure to the stage productions of the city.
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Investigative Report
The dead body of a seemingly unknown young man...
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
PRIMAL KNOWLEDGE
So many years gone by, but oh! wonder, yet to learn...
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Shakespeare found the world a stage. Similar comments could be found in literatures, oral or written, of places across the globe.
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Coming of Age in a Dystopia
Once you get into reading-intensive courses in university, it's difficult to read books that don't come assigned with the courses.
31 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Not Your Regular Fiction Genres
If someone asked me what my favourite fiction genre is, I would probably reply with a predictable “fantasy” or “romance”.
31 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
ON 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience
THE idea of Pakistan stands riddled with tensions. Initiated by a small group of select Urdu-speaking Muslims who envisioned a unified
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Essays on an esoteric subject
On 2 August 2006, Selig Harrison, a highly-regarded American journalist, wrote an op-ed piece on Bangladesh in The Washington Post
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Verses of Concealed Agonies
Poets, authors and playwrights have all along expressed different dimensions of feelings through their literary works. Tales that we
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
I DO NOT WISH EXILE ANYMORE
I do not wish exile anymore
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Commitment
In the coming spring I will love you
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
When your word is someone else's bond
Within minutes of Melania Trump finishing her speech at the US Republican Convention, the news was out that she had plagiarised a
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM