Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Veteran singer Ferdausi Rahman’s autobiography launched at Bengal Shilpalay
8 July 2026, 01:08 AM
Books
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
3 July 2026, 15:04 PM
Literature
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
What to read
Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
From an untitled,unfinished, unpublished 1971 story
I knew it was Tipu, without even looking at the blanket-wrapped body they were carrying on their shoulders. I knew it was Tipu, because as always, he had filled up every space with his presence. He was my only child, and I often
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Syed Manzoorul Islam: “A Veritable Man of Letters”
Dr. Syed Manzoorul Islam – or SMI sir, as he is popularly known to us, his current and former students – is one of the most dynamic people I know. I first met him about twenty-five years ago in an undergraduate classroom where he
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Grief Tourist
Stepping into unknown spaces,
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Bewitching Heidelberg
Much like the famous German song “Ichhabmein Herz in Heidelberg verloren” by Fred Raymond, which later became the theme song of
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Music, the Goddess of Passion
I confess: music for me is intimate. I don't know about genres and canons. Nor do I know the reasons that compel a composer to
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”
As Bangladesh continues to grapple with the massive influx of Rohingya refugees, an unprecedented spotlight has been shone on the
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Why I started writing in English
I am Bengali. I am a writer.
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Unknowable
how do you explain that love
is a monstrous shape-shifting beast
12 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Artemis - A porter's guide to the moon city
I haven't read “The Martian” yet, but the reviews steaming with overwhelming appreciation definitely had me hyped for the author's latest title, Artemis. Did I enjoy my first Andy Weir book? Keep reading.
10 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Inspirational, Imaginative, Unconventional-Razia Khan Amin
There is hardly anything anywhere in the net to indicate how good Razia Khan Amin (1936-2011) (aka Razia Khan, or Mrs. Amin to us
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Imagination's winter
When snow falls, people at a distance
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Rediscovering Origin
These two questions happen to be at the heart of human knowledge and rationality, and the focal point of Dan Brown's ground-
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
SKETCHES ON A WIDE CAMPUS
This book's subtitle, Sketches from my Life gestures helpfully at the book's content for it is about the full and colorful life lived by its
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Specks of Dreams and Polarized Dusts
I fell asleep within my sleep and woke up to find myself in your dream, which is also mine.
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
From Enchanted Delta
Nadeem longed to join the crowds in the streets. When no one was around, he watched his own face in the mirror as he improvised a
5 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Stairway to Wonderland
Past giant mountains, which collide with the blue linings of the abyss,
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reincarnation
We were in Cambridge, Massachusetts, waiting for a table at a popular restaurant. There were only two benches and a chair arranged
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Reminiscing Comilla
This evening, it's my nose or maybe I've been getting intimations of the sweet odor of burning incense!
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Church Bells and Darjeeling Tea
The title of the book entices the reader. We all love Darjeeling tea, but why 'Church bells?' Zeena Chowdhury's experience of
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM
Efflorescence of South Asian Sci Fi?
I have long been a reader of science fiction. Not just for entertainment, but also for insights useful for my research and teaching.
29 December 2017, 18:00 PM