BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Sports journalism and Bangladesh
9 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
'Independence': A painfully poignant Partition story
22 June 2023, 08:16 AM
Books & Literature
Professing criticism: On Naeem Mohaiemen's new book of essays
8 June 2023, 06:59 AM
Books & Literature
Flesh in ruins
18 May 2023, 07:33 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Family of feelings: Iffat Nawaz's 'Shurjo's Clan'
26 January 2023, 10:20 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The Bhawal story through women’s voices in Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’
8 December 2022, 04:00 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Andy Warhol & Truman Capote talk out their anxieties
1 December 2022, 12:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: A relative’s perspective on an enigmatic hero
17 November 2022, 05:46 AM
Books & Literature
Nothing matters, but Albert Camus’s 'The Stranger' does
7 November 2022, 11:42 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Life in modern Dhaka as portrayed in 'A Strange Coincidence and Other Stories'
3 November 2022, 12:00 PM
Books & Literature
Patrick Modiano's So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborho
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood is Patrick Modiano's first publication since 2014 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Refugees and magic realism
To be honest, “Exit West” was the first novel I could devour in a day. This book ended up on my TBR list because 1) the hard cover is beautiful, 2) it is one of the 13 listed books for The Man Booker Prize 2017, and 3) this book is an urgent portrait of the current migration issues.
23 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Longlist Announced For The Dsc Prize For South Asian Literature 2017
The much anticipated longlist for the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 was announced today by eminent feminist writer and publisher Ritu Menon, who is the chair of the jury panel for the distinguished prize.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Ocean of Sorrow
When I picked up Ocean of Sorrow, I didn't know what to expect. My father had bought the book from Bangla Academy in our recent trip to Dhaka.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
From The Pain of a Hollow Man (Rikter Bedan)
Oh, Lord! Is this your way of freeing me from the possible entanglement of relationships? I pondered and wondered; my eyes filled with tears. The joy of such freedom is full of intense pain too.
18 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Fictionalizing an Unhappy World
“A single book could contain so much of everything, so much anguish and joy and love and war and death and life, so much of being
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Sparring with Spirits!
Poetry can be defined in a thousand ways, and yet its essence will continue to elude us. A poem might be someone's imagination
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
On Art and the Artiste –
Twenty years ago—back in 1997—I was a first-year undergraduate studying English literature at the University of Dhaka when
11 August 2017, 18:00 PM
The untold story of the home front
“In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are.”
9 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Ms Bunny Sen
been buggering around this goddamn city
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
City Beloved
Humayun Ahmed's Tomader Ei Nagar-e projects Dhaka--our beloved city!--with all her beauties, flaws, eccentricities, and mysteries
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Literature and the City
Urban spaces have deeply contradictory existences in our imagination. We love cities and the goodies they offer; we also hate them
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Coleridge: Stories of Betrayal, Pain and Misunderstanding
Sometime in 1797 something magical happened in English literature. Two poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge by
28 July 2017, 18:18 PM
Sense of Poetic Essence
The sublime use of language can be best met in poetry which holds an intrinsic kinship with aesthetics. Poets play with words
28 July 2017, 18:17 PM
21st Century High Politics in the Indo-Pacific and the Bay of Bengal
A post-cold war international economic and political order is still unfolding and has been witnessing concerted attempts by traditional
28 July 2017, 18:06 PM
Quotes on Austen
You could not shock her more than she shocks me,
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Dream within a Dream
Imagine a world where you are the creator and the decider. And where you are the king in a kingdom of critters. It's a dream land, of
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Doves and Dogs of War
Wars, great and small, have been a part of recorded human history. Given the varied elements that go toward the making of
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM
A Liberation War Novel for Our Time
The title of Habib's work is suggest why did our valiant freedom fighters liberate this country? Why did the martyrs go through hell for
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Men, Memories and Missing Pieces
Men Without Women, Haruki Murakami, ISBN 9780451494, Bond Street Books, 2017
14 July 2017, 18:00 PM