POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025, 19:31 PM
Books & Literature
LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Between home and elsewhere
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / An inter-cultural romance
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Lessons from our literary girls: Why freedom framed as favour is no freedom at all
26 November 2025, 11:18 AM
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ESSAY / When old patriarchies wear new faces
25 November 2025, 12:57 PM
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INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering
22 November 2025, 11:51 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Contested words, painful genealogies
19 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Step into dystopia
Revisiting ‘The Long Walk’ (Signet Books, 1979) by Stephen King on his 78th birthday
21 September 2025, 13:45 PM
An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
What authors, publishers are saying about an ‘off-season’ book fair
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Farhad Mazhar and the Being of Lalon Fakir
Farhad Mazhar has long stood at the unpredictable intersection of poetry, politics, and philosophy.
19 September 2025, 19:10 PM
Writer in the dark
There is a strange insanity that comes with being a woman in her 20s. A haunting fear that follows like a thought lingering in the back of our minds, refusing to leave.
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
Scent of the day
I wake up to the smell of coral jasmine
Those mushrooms in my garden of dreams.
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
Exploring the modern concerns in ‘Homer’s epic’ in light of Nolan’s adaptation
My love for the Percy Jackson series transformed reading The Odyssey from an academic obligation into an act of curiosity.
17 September 2025, 18:00 PM
WHAT WE’RE READING THIS WEEK
Akhteruzzaman Elias needs no introduction. Khoari is an anthology of four short stories by the prolific writer of novels like Chilekothar Shepai (1987) and Khwabnama (1996). In this collection, the writer explores not only universally resonant and time transcendent themes like sexuality, old age, lust, and death but also postcolonial ones like race, occupation, displacement, and sense of belonging.
17 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Is this the end of growth as we have known it?
The world only began to experience notable economic growth in the late 19th century. Even then, it was the reserve of heavily industrialised nations. Thanks to the mercantilist policies of Europe’s empires, this meant that territories like the Bengal weren’t merely prevented from industrialising, but deindustrialised.
17 September 2025, 18:00 PM
A collection of books by renowned writers you cannot read
Each year, one writer contributes a text that will remain unpublished and unread until 2114.
14 September 2025, 13:30 PM
Dhaka myths
I have become the smoke .In someone’s teacup at 8,.The quiet breeze that flickers a candle–.before the call to prayer..Dhaka, you burned me to ash.And tried to mold me like Hephaestus .As if I were your forged blade,.Your myth-woven metal..But stil
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
Your hands shook the whole time
Winters feel less like winters, the sun
burns on my fragile skin. December. Tell me it’s
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
Standing firm against the establishment: Farewell Badruddin Umar
Always a voice against the ruling class, Badruddin Umar was a fierce critic of the post-1971 regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
11 September 2025, 13:30 PM
The Indosphere and its discontents
In the year 1025, a fleet of warships set sail from the Coromandel Coast of southern India on a mission of conquest.
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Abandon hope, all ye who enter grad school
If Dante Alighieri were a frustrated PhD student with a caffeine addiction and a strong disdain for university bureaucracy, he might have created Katabasis, as R.F. Kuang did.
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM
When dreams refuse to stay silent
The launch brought together literature, art, and reflection, marking the arrival of Breaking Dreams as a work that speaks both to individual lives and to the wider social realities of Bangladesh.
9 September 2025, 13:00 PM
'Da Vinci Code' author Dan Brown releases latest thriller
"The Secret of Secrets", which runs to nearly 700 pages in English, marks Brown's return eight years after his last novel, "Origin".
9 September 2025, 10:19 AM
The fire that has no shape
What do you carry in your heart’s bundle?
A lineage?
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
A visit before the journey
Before returning to Australia, I felt a quiet urgency to visit my elderly and ailing relatives in Dhaka. Not just a social obligation—it was something deeper, a whisper from within. I heard such visits were acts of virtue, but for me, it was more about connection, memory, and respect..A fe
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
No one taught her this
One of the memoir’s most striking elements is Westover’s refusal to paint her family in simple black and white
4 September 2025, 14:15 PM
The imperfect art of leaving
In a recent conversation I had with a well-regarded photographer about his longitudinal study on a subject, he talked about Sufism and the structure of the raagas in classical music where a single refrain being repeated was actually an inward search for deeper meaning.
3 September 2025, 18:01 PM