FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali

The 216-year-old building of the former British Residency of Hyderabad (also known as Koti Residency or Hyderabad Residency) has been fully restored after a remodelling work of nearly 20 years.

"I realised I had to start again as a person and a writer. I had to become a comic writer, a serious writer, a writer who could integrate the madness and most interesting elements on the same page."

The more than 1,000 stolen manuscripts included a work by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Syed Afzal Hasan Uddin says of first generation immigrants that they—who are already grappling with the duality of their multifaceted identities—were not seen as being Bengali enough by their parents.

Rifat Munim highlighted how a moderator can be a catalyst to an engaging dialogue between the panellists and the audience,

Daily Star Books’ panel on January 8, Day 4 of the Dhaka Lit Fest sought to take the audience to a more existential aspect of what the festival attempts to do. Who chooses which stories deserve to become books? Who chooses whether news of those books will even reach readers? Does book criticism truly help the flow and business of literature within and across national borders?

There is absolutely no necessary relationship between the worship of goddesses and the treatment of women.

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.

Readers are questioning how “a coloring book was ever going to ‘tastefully mirror Lilly Bloom’s story’ of violent domestic abuse.”

Here are some of the books that will be hitting the shelves in 2023.

This year a ticketing system was imposed. As such, sales were lower than expected.

With a Books page you're creating a running history of the ideas and the parallel history or the imagination of a country.

The panel spoke broadly about censorship, #MeToo movement, mob mentality, cancel culture, JK Rowling, and social media echo chambers. 

Banks, a professor emeritus at Princeton University, died Saturday in upstate New York, his editor, Dan Halpern, told The Associated Press. Banks was being treated for cancer.

The last day of the 10th Dhaka Lit Fest today began on a calmer note.

"I started my journey with a simple dream of writing a book for my children", she shared at the talk. 

Dhaka Lit Fest just completed its 10th anniversary and, like always, took place at Bangla Academy.

Despite the popularity of TV, cinematic rights come with their drawbacks. While it is thrilling for a novelist to have their work taken up by a production house, sometimes their work ends up in a forgotten corner for a long time.

Author and literary critic Nilanjana Roy moderated a session on "A World Without a Centre", with Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, Bengali litterateur Amitav Ghosh, and novelist and political analyst Pankaj Mishra discussing how novels play a role in shaping a world that lives with the legacy of colonialism, and the of impacts of climate crises and technology.

Media platforms that critique literature are, therefore, at the heart of the book ecosystem. They shape a book’s public perception and can bolster (or destroy) sales.