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
The underwater wonders revealed
It was more than 15O years from now that Captain Nemo travelled across the seven seas in his submarine named Nautilus when no one could think of an underwater ship in his wildest dream.
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Quest for knowing and understanding Bangladesh
This book traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages. History of Bangladesh: A Subcontinental Civilisation has been written over a period of twenty two years by Abul Maal A. Muhith, a former high civil servant and currently Finance Minister of Bangladesh.
18 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Hope
The pale colour of an exhausted day
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Blackbird
On the beautiful wings of the Blackbird,
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Ephemeral Love
The news took us all by great surprise. Some of us were shocked, and others were very upset. One friend Mahbub, who
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Nazrul's Immortal Works
The resourceful poems and lyrics in this anthology uphold human dignity, religious harmony, truth, beauty, pain and love. His poems
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
A Tribute to Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was one of the most charismatic public figures. She was also probably the most enigmatic and intensely private in her
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Women Empowerment in Bangladesh of the Forest, Tree & Grassroots
The issue of emancipating women raises obvious questions: Is there a final point; indeed, is the starting point similar across countries;
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Allusion
My paradise is regained...
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
IMMORTAL RABINDRANATH
Rabindranath keeps awake by you every day...
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Many of the theatre persons of Bangladesh left the country in 1971 for Calcutta and had an active exposure to the stage productions of the city.
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Investigative Report
The dead body of a seemingly unknown young man...
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
PRIMAL KNOWLEDGE
So many years gone by, but oh! wonder, yet to learn...
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Shakespeare found the world a stage. Similar comments could be found in literatures, oral or written, of places across the globe.
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Coming of Age in a Dystopia
Once you get into reading-intensive courses in university, it's difficult to read books that don't come assigned with the courses.
31 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Not Your Regular Fiction Genres
If someone asked me what my favourite fiction genre is, I would probably reply with a predictable “fantasy” or “romance”.
31 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Verses of Concealed Agonies
Poets, authors and playwrights have all along expressed different dimensions of feelings through their literary works. Tales that we
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
ON 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience
THE idea of Pakistan stands riddled with tensions. Initiated by a small group of select Urdu-speaking Muslims who envisioned a unified
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Essays on an esoteric subject
On 2 August 2006, Selig Harrison, a highly-regarded American journalist, wrote an op-ed piece on Bangladesh in The Washington Post
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM