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
In This Winter
And these buildings wearing out this winter's heart –
21 October 2016, 18:00 PM
THE AIM OF YOUTH
This is 'youth' and the religion of 'youth'. We have no other country, no nation, no religion. Their cantonment belongs to no country,
21 October 2016, 18:00 PM
A TRUE MAN OF LETTERS:
Bernard Bergonzi, poet, literary critic and novelist, died on 20 September at the age of 87. He was born in the Southeast London suburb
14 October 2016, 18:00 PM
THE AIM OF YOUTH
My dear younger brothers!
14 October 2016, 18:00 PM
No response yet from Bob Dylan on Nobel literature prize win
Twenty-four hours after awarding Bob Dylan the Nobel prize for literature, the Swedish Academy says it had still not managed to speak to the reclusive US singer.
14 October 2016, 12:19 PM
Corrigendum
In an article of Book Reviews page titled “Valiant freedom fighters of the soil” published on September 26, 2016, the word should have read “Melaghor”, instead of “Khelaghor”.
9 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Sriti Bisritir Ami
The author goes on a time travel through the streets and alleys of his mind in search of the golden moments as he went on his journey of life.
9 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Works
This book includes some sketches by Hans Christian Andersen and surprisingly, there is an illustration of some dancing dervishes which reminds of a philosophical trajectory marked by the mystic thoughts of Jalal Uddin Rumi, the most famous Persian scholar of all times.
9 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Essays on Bengal of a Bygone Era
Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar was at the forefront of providing educational opportunities for the Bengalis. He wrote, according to Chandicharan Bandopaddhay, 52 books, of which 30 were in Bangla, 17 in Sanskrit, and 5 in English. He was also in service of the British government. Allegations were rife that he used his position and closeness and influence with the British to push for his own books to be incorporated as school textbooks.
9 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Valiant freedom fighters of the soil
Of the few books written in English on the liberation struggle and the war of independence of Bangladesh, some cover either a specific
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Cosmic Detective: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe
This slim primer on Cosmology for general public is an Official Product of International Year of Astronomy 2009, declared by the UN
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
What Can I Give?
Abook in memory of the country s most loved teacher. DrKalam is often remembered as a teacher par excellence, whose words, thoughts
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
A saga of love, sacrifice and the French Revolution
Atale of Two Cities is one of the greatest novels by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). It tells the story of the French Revolution that had a
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Awaking
I shall be waiting for you
23 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Are you a mere portrait painted on canvas?
Are you a mere portrait painted on canvas?
23 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Smells of a Frozen Fire
So weird a moon is now up,
23 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Seafarers
The sea holds the ship like one might hold a gemstone, lightly gripped between the tips of its forefingers, stuttering. It tries to be
23 September 2016, 18:00 PM
If Fitzgerald wrote The Devil Wears Prada
The bald-headed Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada says to Andrea Sachs, “You think this is just a magazine?
21 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover.
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM