From the Pens of a Daily Commuter

The scene must have caught attention of those people who tend to come and go through the Farmgate area. How old may that
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM

The Monster

Lina slumped into the chair as Chameli left her room. She did not know how to tell her mother that she did not like to visit Reba
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Poetry

“How do I make you understand,
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM

The Bones of Grace: Rewriting History

Tahmima Anam attracted an international readership when her debut novel A Golden Age (2007) won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best First Book in 2008.
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Arundhati Roy and Our Reality

Some days ago, a friend of mine who stays abroad, sent me a gift. Since he is very special to me, I was extra-eager to open the box and find out what it was.
3 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Literature by women—for women or for all?

In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath writes about a young woman, Esther Greenwood, experiencing the publishing industry on a summer internship, as well as life in New York City, for the first time.
2 August 2018, 18:00 PM

A book that makes you say "law, have mercy"

Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the early 1960s, The Help by Kathryn Stockett talks about racial segregation at its worst. The book is narrated by three very different women; Aibileen, a black maid who is raising her 'seventeenth white child', Minny, another black maid unable to keep a job due to her loud mouth and hot head, and Miss Skeeter, a white woman who wants to be a writer.
1 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Alpana Habib — “the happy homecook”

Almost four hundred prime-time television recipe shows. Over 24,000 Likes on the Facebook page, ‘Alpana Habibs Cooking Club.’
30 July 2018, 18:00 PM

The Other Half

The inkwell is trembling, There is the smooth rise and fall of memories, The hesitant fingers wrap the quill, The words come alive on paper, Is the scheme of life completeness of whole?
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

The Good Muslim: A Post-Liberation War Bangladesh

“A novel asserts nothing; it provides a framework for thinking about things.” said Martin Amis, a British writer, in an interview with Rachel Cooke published in The Observer of 1 October 2006.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

The Other Half

The inkwell is trembling
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

The Good Muslim: A Post-Liberation War Bangladesh

“A novel asserts nothing; it provides a framework for thinking about things.” said Martin Amis, a British writer, in an interview with Rachel Cooke published in The Observer of 1 October 2006. Shortlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and long listed for the 2011 Man Asian Prize
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

A Daughter of India vs. a Son of England

“Would not the immolation of a daughter of India and a son of England awaken India to its continued state of subjugation and England to the iniquities of its proceedings?” - Bina Das (1932).
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

From Fantasia with Love

Before I begin fan-girling over my Fairy Godfather, to quench the curious bibliophiles (like yours truly), the book I had been carrying around that day was Cornelia Funke's The Griffin's Feather!
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

Fierce, Friendly Fire

Usually, newspaper pages are dedicated to venerable people who have passed away or won an award. The occasion for today's issue is neither.
27 July 2018, 18:00 PM

Letters to Namdeo Dhasal: Meditations of a Dalit Mystic

Over the last decade, India has been experiencing a major geo-political shift with respect to class, caste and communal relationships.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM

The Ballad of Ayesha: Ayesha and Her Country

Just like Behula, the people of Bangladesh never stopped persevering …
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM

Days of Our Likes

Lightning strikes, Thunder roars
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM

Our Story

Here, we stand in silence;
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM

The Death of a Reader

It was a long time ago.
20 July 2018, 18:00 PM