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
Sometimes the sinner, always a saint!
...the book is not just about being the Saint; in fact it's about the life of a man whose entry into adulthood was marked by an adventure which would only be right for someone who would eventually go on to play the slightly unorthodox Simon Templar.
21 August 2016, 18:00 PM
It's all about happiness
The trademark of a great writer like Munro is that her words never get old. While I have read many of the short stories of this collection, and immediately recognized many of the titles, and as I kept on reading these many of the characters, names, and plots seemed familiar, I can't say I felt bored or had the urge to skip a line or two as I had done earlier.
21 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Threshold
An everyday face
19 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Colour of Season
Whenever, I had come over to Sydney to spend time with my family, we met most of the times on road or cottage fence and
19 August 2016, 18:00 PM
On a Train
Sue and Glen, standing on the moving train, stood facing each other as they held a steel pole for support. Crowded with office
19 August 2016, 18:00 PM
More Fan Fiction Than Sequel
We were sceptical, but that didn't stop us from grabbing the first copy of The Cursed Child we could find. While I wasn't hoping to be blown out of my mind, it's disheartening how my only sentiment towards the story is an indifferent “Meh”.
17 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Two Poems by Masud Khan
I never went to Kurigram.
12 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Colour of Season
The winter has begun from of 1st of June officially in Australia. I wonder, if the season does follow the calendar.
12 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Why humans need to communicate
Two concepts—communications and communication—mistakenly or unknowingly are used interchangeably in the applied filed of communication in Bangladesh.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
A 'solipsistic' epic…
This is the third of the six-volume autobiography of the global sensation Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard. His magnum opus “My Struggle” has been compared to French novelist Marcel Proust's philosophical musings in “In Search of Lost Time”.
7 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Ode to July
In the yearly cycle of months, we are now well into July. In season's
5 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Lost
I have a feeling of unease,
5 August 2016, 18:00 PM
A peek into the life of an alienated youth
Set within and on the outskirts of Dhaka City, Like A Diamond In The Sky (Shazia Omar, Penguin 2009), is a novel that addresses the alienation of Bangladeshi youth through the struggles of a 21 year old drug addict, Deen, and his 'khor' friends.
5 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Traveller
The traveller walks on, singing as if undone,
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The passer-by
‘Shaggy rags carpet the sky with tiny pores for rays to penetrate,
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Fiction and the unconscious
The outcome of the referendum seems certain to divorce us from the European Union. But Britain itself has already been internally fractured by an angry campaign full of dishonest threats and promises. The leading promoters of Brexit were mainly responsible.
29 July 2016, 18:00 PM
Breaking Writer's Block
Whether it's a page or screen devoid of words, writer's block can get crippling. Most of us know “advice” such as taking a walk, having coffee, changing writing tool or going on vacation, is hardly helpful.
27 July 2016, 18:00 PM
At Last, I Came Back
At last, I came back.
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM
LINES FROM EXILE
See, such a beautiful sparrow is
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM
The Man
It was midnight. The man was lying dead; his head had hit the edge of the sidewalk and then cracked open, the blood was slowly but
22 July 2016, 18:00 PM