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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REVIEW: SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH / Colm Tóibín takes Henry James for a ride
23 June 2021
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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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Ann Patchett’s ‘The Dutch House’: On branches of memories and pain
21 June 2021
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Reviews
Pahela Baishakh in Carbondale
Celebrating Pahela Baishakh is only getting more and more colorful. It is no less than a carnival these days. As far I can remember,
13 April 2018
A Review of His Chariot of Life: Liberation War, Politics and Sojourn in Jail
After Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was slapped an uncertain prison term at the end of what he describes as a 'kangaroo trial,' on 18
13 April 2018
Women at War: Shongramee Naree 52 and 71
Since the Liberation War in 1971 the readers in Bangladesh have seen many narratives on 1971 and 1952. In most of these, the central
6 April 2018
A GREEN DOVE IN SILENCE: FORTY PROSE POEMS IN TRANSLATION
There is a feel good factor about Gauranga Mohanta's collection of prose poems A Green Dove in Silence. A neat jacket, crispy pages,
6 April 2018
BLRC Observes World Poetry Day
“Poetry should be free from Royalist Canada's university elites' hierarchy to come down to mass people” - was the resounding declaration
30 March 2018
REMINISCING HALCYON ELITE DAYS
Days with Dinko and other Memories, written by Monica Chanda, and edited and published by her daughter Malavika Karlekar, is a
30 March 2018
BRAVERY HAS NO AGE RESTRICTION
With the rise of fake Freedom Fighter certificates, it is nearly impossible not to be a cynic when one hears about early teen or eleven
16 March 2018
My Absence
In the sultry air of March yawns my absence.
16 March 2018
Colonial History Disrupted: Interpreting the Bottom Line
As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has been a 540% increase in Fentanyl-related deaths over the past three
16 March 2018
Un-Romanticising the Colonial History
Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The
16 March 2018
The Tide of Nationalism in the Rise of Bangladesh
Nationalism is one of the most powerful political ideologies of the world and its wave still vibrates through the Indian subcontinent
9 March 2018
LOVE THE ENDURING KIND
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
9 March 2018
A G Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University
“The book is a memoir, not a history, and makes no claim to a historian's detachment or research.” With this statement, A G Stock
2 March 2018
They Also Were Involved
The subtitle of the book proposes it all: fourteen writers reminisce about their own, or their dear ones' experiences immediately prior to, or during, or at the end of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
16 February 2018
Verses on love and agony: Mashuk Chowdhury's Swarger Replica
Two years earlier I had reviewed one of Mashuk Chowdhury's poetry collections Nodir Nam Dusshomoy for The Daily Star Book Review
9 February 2018
Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?
“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction and non-fiction” (Claire Battershill in “No One Wants Biography”).
2 February 2018
Making Revolution Strange/r: Viktor Shklovsky and the Bolsheviks
1978. When Serena Vitale, an Italian writer and translator, managed her third meeting with Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984), the
2 February 2018
ALL WORK AND SOME PLAY AT RADA
Rada was a lot of hard work interspersed with a good deal of pressure releasers. Talk about the right doses of work and play—RADA
26 January 2018
Revisiting Banaphool's Stories
No life can simply be subsumed under a single category- nor is it possible to come up with a single term to define life's fluxes or
26 January 2018
Of Jean Paul Sartre and Imposture
In October 1964, Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French philosopher and novelist, was declared winner of the Nobel Prize for literature for that year.
19 January 2018