‘Belonging’: Sonia Gandhi memoir set for November 10 release
19 August 2026
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Books
John Cusack backs NEET protesters, shares Arundhati Roy’s article
24 July 2026
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Entertainment
Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026
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Books & Literature
Veteran singer Ferdausi Rahman’s autobiography launched at Bengal Shilpalay
8 July 2026
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Books
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
3 July 2026
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Literature
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026
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The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026
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What to read
Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026
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Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026
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Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026
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Books & Literature
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman goes on sale
Copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited novel Go Set a Watchman are now on sale in UK bookshops, where it was released at midnight.
14 July 2015
Local Governance in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukdar - Senior Programme Manager of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, and author of
12 July 2015
Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization
Bangladesh abounds in paradoxes. It has confounded many developmental pundits by maintaining a fairly brisk pace of economic growth while continuing
12 July 2015
The Last Nizam
A lucid and compelling history of one of India's most wealthy dynasties and one of its most controversial royals The Last Nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how the heir to India's richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty paddocks of outback Australia.
5 July 2015
Bangladesh: Promise and Performance
Edited by Rounaq Jahan, Bangladesh: Promise and Performance reproduces ten papers (out of the sixteen submitted), with the necessary revisions, that were presented at a conference entitled “Bangladesh at 25” at Columbia University, USA, in December 1996.
5 July 2015
Unnoyon Bhabnay Kormosongsthan O Sromobazar (Employment and Labour Market in Development Discourse)
Literature on economics and development in Bangla language can hardly be found. Economists in Bangladesh are generally comfortable in writing academic articles and books in English.
5 July 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE
Today's SLR starts with the story of a woman who became a mother, fell into being a maid, all in the hope of being…a woman.
3 July 2015
The Maid With Four Daughters
She is dark complexioned, a little on the skinny side and of medium height.
3 July 2015
Bucket List: The Kerala Journal
Today we are heading to Thekkady. The Periyar forests of Thekkady has one of the best wildlife reserves and spice plantations, as well as treks and walks for the adventurous.
3 July 2015
Two Poems by Farah Naz
My heart has no other desire
3 July 2015
Fragile Things: Charming and creepy
Fragile Things is not a conventional short story collection. It is quite possibly an odd and approximate sketch of what the inside of Neil Gaiman's head looks like.
1 July 2015
EDITOR’S NOTE
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.” – Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown
26 June 2015
A MASTERPIECE REMASTERED
If you're a Bengali or an art house film buff of any nationality, you've most likely heard of Satyajit Ray, one of India's finest filmmakers, whose debut
26 June 2015
Rabindranath, Belgrade and My Emigration
When the Swedish Writers' Union chose me for a guest writer scholarship to Belgrade, I became excited and started to count the days.
26 June 2015
Sufia Kamal By Maleka Begum
Maleka Begum's latest book, Sufia Kamal, published by Prothoma, chronicles the life, times and works of Sufia Kamal.
21 June 2015
Novera Ahmed
THE book encompasses Novera Ahmed; the sculptor and individual through the eyes of many well known writers such as Mehboob Ahmed, Faiz Ahmed Faiz,Abdus Salam Choudhury, Rabiul Hussain, Rezaul Karim Sumon, S.M.Ali and many more.
21 June 2015
A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces
The stories in this collection will make you see the world differently as the greatest stories always do.
21 June 2015
Private Life of the Mughals of India (1526-1803 A.D.)
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched
21 June 2015
A shooting star leaps to oblivion
A convincing explanation of the title of Shams Monwar's latest collection of poems is not known to this reviewer.
21 June 2015
The Island of Doctor Moreau
I bought a copy of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H G Wells several years ago from a bookstore in Dhaka New Market.
21 June 2015