Reflections / Goatfather: A caprine comedy
4 hour(s) ago
Remember that story of an overpriced goat and its mysterious buyer?
4 hour(s) ago
For those who left but never departed: Nazrul’s ‘Ami chirotore dure chole jabo’
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
Through Nazrul’s words and Firoza Begum’s voice, farewell becomes something more unsettling: a promise never to disappear
24 May 2026, 20:30 PM
‘Cha khaben?’: The question that slows the world down
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
On World Tea Day today, a reflection on how the simple offer continues to turn tea into a ritual of pause, warmth and human connection
21 May 2026, 19:42 PM
Reaction / Murders we write
19 May 2026, 22:33 PM
What happens when murder is no longer an exception to be solved, but a social erosion to be recorded?
19 May 2026, 22:33 PM
Reflection / The children Mother’s Day leaves behind
10 May 2026, 19:30 PM
For some children, love arrives as control, affection as currency and home as a place of survival
10 May 2026, 19:30 PM
Do you know your coffee?
8 May 2026, 18:00 PM
A quiet coffee revolution is underway in Bangladesh
8 May 2026, 18:00 PM
Symphony No. 9: The sound Beethoven could no longer hear, but the world still can't forget
7 May 2026, 19:14 PM
Deaf, isolated and tormented, Beethoven created a work more than two centuries ago that still speaks with startling urgency
7 May 2026, 19:14 PM
Reflection / What is compartmentalisation in a world full of noise?
4 May 2026, 20:29 PM
It is not indifference, but the quiet discipline of deciding what the mind can carry and what must wait
4 May 2026, 20:29 PM
Faiz Ahmad Faiz: When romanticism weaved into revolution
He made poetry a refuge for beauty and a weapon against tyranny
14 February 2026, 22:10 PM
A tune of love telling the tale of loss
Penned by the melancholic genius Hasrat Mohani and immortalised by the soulful voice of Ghulam Ali it was a composition that captured the hearts of millions across the subcontinent especially with its picturisation in the 1982 film, Nikaah
14 February 2026, 15:28 PM
Khushwant Singh: Between laughter and lament
In an age increasingly allergic to nuance, Khushwant Singh’s literary works remain instructive -- reminding that literature is not a decoration of society but its interrogation; that humour can coexist with grief
2 February 2026, 13:17 PM