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
BNP points finger at govt, bank officials
Two senior BNP leaders yesterday alleged that the Tk 800 crore, which was stolen from Bangladesh Bank's account in the US Federal
12 March 2016, 18:00 PM
STRANGER
It was pretty late in the evening when my colleague Sayeed Mahdi and I came out of Lahore Gymkhana.
11 March 2016, 18:01 PM
Love
The far more great is One's sense of love It endows hue to nature The green grass looks greener.....
11 March 2016, 18:00 PM
TWO POEMS
Manic, I run through the woods
11 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Pigeons and Doves
When I was growing up in Sylhet, the pigeons known as Jalali Kobutor – believed to have descended from a pair brought by the great
11 March 2016, 18:00 PM
EC to ask cops to sue Barguna AL MP over breaching polls code
The Election Commission has decided to ask the superintendent of police (SP) of Barguna to sue a ruling Awami
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Political biography of Zia launched
A book launching ceremony of "President Zia of Bangladesh; A political Biography" by journalist Mahfuz Ullah was held yesterday in the capital's BRAC Inn Auditorium.
8 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Finding home halfway across the world
The present book is not only a fascinating read, but also a collection of testimonies that fills in a gap in the historical narrative of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh.
6 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of University of Dhaka
I would like to begin by congratulating the editors Imtiaz Ahmed and Iftekhar Iqbal for bringing out this timely volume of essays University of Dhaka: Making Unamaking Remaking.
6 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Seasonal ban on hilsa fishing to boost output by 30,000cr fry
The 15-day ban on hilsa fishing during its breeding period in 2015 will help raise the output of the delicious fish by about 30,000 crore fry (jatka), predicts a senior fisheries scientist.
6 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Cops probing if mother's statement true
Police have been investigating the statement of Mahfuza Malek Jasmine, mother of the two siblings who were murdered in the capital's
5 March 2016, 18:00 PM
YOUR LONELY WALKS
Don't hold my hand
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
A living celebration of Shakespeare's sonnets
Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare's works still seem inexhaustible as a source of pleasure and a spur to creative
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
A Little Wind
My fists open like leaves
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Here Was a Door
Here was a door, above which hung the cherished beauty
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM
A Stalwart in Politics and Literature
ABUL Mansur Ahmed was born in Mymensingh in the year 1898. Primarily known as a Bangladeshi litterateur, he was also a politician
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Expectations to climb social ladder
Set in the mid-nineteenth century England, Great Expectations is one of Dickens' most famous works and is even considered his best
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM
An Advisable Handbook for Boosting Research Skills
GOBESHONAY Hatekhori (Introduction to Research Methods)
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Insane
Your nails are long...
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Dreams
I clawed at my throat; my nails digging into my skin. The pressure of my nails was good enough to leave some crescent shaped bruises.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM