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: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books
Bereavement
Things were not so rosy at first,
But soon they were straightened out.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
Ten years after Iqbal is born in Sialkot in undivided India, a girl named Atiya is born thousands of miles away in Istanbul. Just as Iqbal's father ran a business in Sialkot, Atiya's father Hasan Ali Fyzee (1827–1903) ran a business in that Turkish metropolis.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover. Just before this takeover..
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
My Days in National Book Centre
Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
From Subjective Impulses to Universal Echoes
This is how I sent a message through a social network to poet Nahid Kaiser expressing my eagerness to read her latest book...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
On the eve of India partition…
To me, Aynakhal Tea Estate is a metaphor for a world unknown to all but only those who work there: the British Mangers and Assistant Managers, the Bengali Clerks known as Babus, and the workers called Coolies. This world is a lot different from the one we live in; for it has its own rules, its own code of conduct, and challenges and dangers ...
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
In this misty field one day
Nobody will find me walking in this misty field one day, I know;
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Then Again Love
Wild darkness of rain...
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Blue Afternoon
Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Struggling since 1971..
Mr Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist. Despite being a graduate of Accounting he has written on a wide array of social & political causes/issues. The author has published 40 different books so far as a social novel, research papers, stories and so on.
28 March 2016, 14:21 PM
Genocidal rape should be part of genocide
Eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday underscored the need for incorporating genocidal rape in the definition of
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
CU Sangskrit students confine dept head
Around 100 Sangskrit students of Chittagong University confined their departmental chairperson to her office for over
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Good Start to a Series
Only Time Will Tell is the first of seven novels of the Clifton Chronicles series written by Jeffrey Archer.
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP criticises CEC's fair UP polls claim
BNP yesterday lambasted the chief election commissioner for his comment before journalists on Tuesday that the first
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Violence against ethnic minorities increasing
Last year, 85 women and girls from ethnic minority communities, 44 from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and 41 from plain land, became victims of violence, according to "Human Rights Report 2015 on Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh".
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Internships introduced for students at Microsoft Bangladesh
Students of different public and private universities in Bangladesh, for the first time, will get internship opportunities
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Qulkhwani
The qulkhwani of Manzoor Ahmed, former captain of Kurmitola Golf Club, will be held after the Maghrib prayers today
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
HC upholds BTRC's decision of seeking Tk 30cr from ETV
The High Court yesterday upheld a Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) decision to seek Tk 30.09 crore from Ekushey Television (ETV) for using its broadcasting frequency.
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Drive against illegal signboards, wall paintings from April
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) requested all the business centres and individuals to keep signboards or nameplates in sizes that have been approved
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM