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
A Writer's Enigma
I cannot write. For a month, it lingers. Every morning, I sit in front of my laptop and hope to write something new, something noble. But nothing comes out. Not a word, not a sentence. As if the sea of creativity has dried up.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Chawk Bazar, 2019
The fire of Muspelheim rages
In the dark alleys where for ages
Ancient arts of beauty have been stockpiled
By the masters of money and mind.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Name of the Beloved
Tell me, Bell,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Our Debt of Gratitude to Abdul Quadir
Abdul Quadir (1906-84) was a poet-prosodist, essayist, editor, journalist, literary critic, bibliophile and collector of literary works. He
8 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Delight in Disorder: South Asian Festival of Sufism and Buddhism
The last email that I got from the organizers of the South Asian Festival of Sufism and Buddhism (the word Buddhism continued to be
8 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Artist
Like it or not, the sun has all these rising points,
8 March 2019, 18:00 PM
MORNING WALKS
Morning walks, or rather ambles, tip-toeing towards the rest of the day. One's day gathers pace seemingly hour by hour after one
8 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Poetry
A morning perennially haunted by the memories of lovemaking
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
An Endeavor to Transgress Borders through Translation: 5th International Conference, Department of English, EWU
Translation studies is a newly emerging area of interest among academics and practitioners of English language and literature. Living
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Patna Blues: Travails of a Minority Community
An enjoyable read, Abdullah Khan's debut novel, Patna Blues is a thought-provoking and moving work as well. It is a book mostly
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Deconstructing Genre in Writing
Does a piece of writing have a sex? Not really! It perhaps has a gender, which in French is genre. When it comes to distinguishing one
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
God
A tiger kept prowling around a village, and naturally, the people became frightened. The cows, the calves and even men were mauled
1 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The world of Terry Pratchett
The late great Sir Terry Pratchett was a force to be reckoned with in the domain of fantasy novels. While his contributions to the world of literature are innumerable, Pratchett's life encompassed a lot more than just the art of writing books.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Ikrimikri- Enchanting kids with its colourful world of books
Ikrimikri is a publication of books that deliver heartwarming stories and dazzling illustrations. The illustrations are striking enough to make any adult want to keep the books for themselves.
27 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Stories from Life and Literature
Glancing nervously at the dogs that lay basking in the winter sunshine, I tried to move ahead with confidence, telling myself that the venerable Tollygunge Club would never allow their clientele anywhere near animals that hadn't had their rabies shots.
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Ekusher Kabita
At the noon
Of 21st February
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
The Spirit of the International Mother Language Day
Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I were to subscribe to one particular language that didn't have any link with my roots. One particular language, which I didn't know like the back of my hand.
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
From Zahir Raihan's Arek Phalgun
The British Marin camped here in the dead of night when people were in deep sleep. There was no human residence here back then; only lines of upward looking trees graced the vicinity.
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives- Vol. I and II
History of Bangladesh: Early Bengal in Regional Perspectives (up to c. 1200 CE)- Vol. I & II, edited by renowned historians of ancient
22 February 2019, 18:00 PM
CHINA RULING THE WAVES?
Lieutenant General Mohammad Aminul Karim is no stranger to the sea. His latest book, Geopolitics of the South China Sea in the Coming Decades, continues a streak explaining why we must give ocean-based rivalry more currency. Yet again he applies the discipline of his military training to the International Relations discipline, leaving readers, as every scholarly book should, both inquisitive and enlightened.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM