BOOK REVIEW: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / Revisiting forgotten babyhood days with ‘Babuibela’
4 August 2021
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Books & Literature
Tahmima Anam’s ‘The Startup Wife’ arrives at Baatighar
30 June 2021
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Book Reviews
New online journal ‘Kitchen Sink’ promises an accessible platform for poets
30 June 2021
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Book Reviews
Is Netflix’s ‘Ray’ worth the watch?
27 June 2021
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Book Reviews
FROM ELITA’S BOOKSHELF / The book that I would like to read
25 June 2021
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Reviews
READ ONLINE: INTERVIEW / Unpacking Bangladesh’s obsession with Bollywood
23 June 2021
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Reviews
REVIEW: SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH / Colm Tóibín takes Henry James for a ride
23 June 2021
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Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: AUTOFICTION / Who is Ayad Akhtar?
23 June 2021
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‘The Moment of Lift’: Melinda Gates and the developing world’s untapped female-fuel
23 June 2021
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Reviews
Ann Patchett’s ‘The Dutch House’: On branches of memories and pain
21 June 2021
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Through the Eyes of Mrs. Funnybones
Balancing beautifully between her panache and wit, Twinkle Khanna a.k.a. Mrs. Funnybones shares some insider's information of the
22 June 2018
A Tale of Rohingya: A Take on Dislocation and Displacement
The life of refugee people has always been difficult, and in the current world it has taken on a monstrous form across borders.
22 June 2018
Djinn City: Myth and Mystery in Dhaka's Underbelly
No need for a movie tonight! Grab yourself a cup of steaming hot chai, turn off all distractions, and get strapped in for the
22 June 2018
Nirbachito Galpa: A Reflection of Middle-Class Lifestyle
Abul Hayat is a renowned Bangladeshi actor. Starting with Oedipus in 1969, he has acted in over five hundred plays to date. Not
8 June 2018
THE ETERNAL BARD
Just the other day I was watching over CNN the celebrated journalist Christianne Amanpour prefacing her interview of the veteran
8 June 2018
A Review of The Sunset Club
'Boorha Binch' is the term used by walkers and wanderers in the historical urban jewel that are the Lodhi Gardens in central New Delhi.
1 June 2018
The Best Asian Short Stories: Stories from a Changing Continent
A son worries whether his mother, who is travelling alone, will be able to haul her luggage down from the conveyor belt. An elderly
1 June 2018
In an Old Metropolis Once We Lived
When I put my first step
25 May 2018
Art Against Genocide: A Testament of Time
As much as the ongoing Rohingya crisis is being extensively covered by the local and international media, the distinct lack of a serious
25 May 2018
The Uprising of 1857
There is perhaps no event in the long history of the British empire in India that continues to exert so strong and abiding a fascination as the great uprising of 1857.
25 May 2018
Pestilential Scourge - The Plague
Published in 1947, the background of Albert Camus' The Plague is that of Oran, a coastal town of colonial Algeria. The author certainly
18 May 2018
Professor Nurul Islam’s Odyssey
This book is the story of Professor Nurul Islam, arguably Bangladesh's most famous living economist. The narrative begins with his
17 May 2018
Once Upon a Night
Surabala and I went to school together, played husband and wife, being the kids that we were. Whenever I went to their house, her
11 May 2018
Going to Hatiya Island
At first sight of our island, I confess
4 May 2018
Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women
The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
4 May 2018
ECLECTIC ESSAYS
Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and
4 May 2018
Crescent: A Review
Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz
27 April 2018
Anne -The Hopeless Dreamer
If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking
20 April 2018
Where Reality Meets Fiction
“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.
20 April 2018
Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review
Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi
20 April 2018