BOOK REVIEW: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / Revisiting forgotten babyhood days with ‘Babuibela’
4 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
Tahmima Anam’s ‘The Startup Wife’ arrives at Baatighar
30 June 2021, 13:48 PM
Book Reviews
New online journal ‘Kitchen Sink’ promises an accessible platform for poets
30 June 2021, 12:13 PM
Book Reviews
Is Netflix’s ‘Ray’ worth the watch?
27 June 2021, 12:42 PM
Book Reviews
FROM ELITA’S BOOKSHELF / The book that I would like to read
25 June 2021, 08:38 AM
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READ ONLINE: INTERVIEW / Unpacking Bangladesh’s obsession with Bollywood
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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REVIEW: SHORT STORY OF THE MONTH / Colm Tóibín takes Henry James for a ride
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: AUTOFICTION / Who is Ayad Akhtar?
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM
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‘The Moment of Lift’: Melinda Gates and the developing world’s untapped female-fuel
23 June 2021, 09:04 AM
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Ann Patchett’s ‘The Dutch House’: On branches of memories and pain
21 June 2021, 13:39 PM
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Through the Eyes of Mrs. Funnybones
Balancing beautifully between her panache and wit, Twinkle Khanna a.k.a. Mrs. Funnybones shares some insider's information of the
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM
A Tale of Rohingya: A Take on Dislocation and Displacement
The life of refugee people has always been difficult, and in the current world it has taken on a monstrous form across borders.
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Djinn City: Myth and Mystery in Dhaka's Underbelly
No need for a movie tonight! Grab yourself a cup of steaming hot chai, turn off all distractions, and get strapped in for the
22 June 2018, 18:00 PM
Nirbachito Galpa: A Reflection of Middle-Class Lifestyle
Abul Hayat is a renowned Bangladeshi actor. Starting with Oedipus in 1969, he has acted in over five hundred plays to date. Not
8 June 2018, 18:00 PM
THE ETERNAL BARD
Just the other day I was watching over CNN the celebrated journalist Christianne Amanpour prefacing her interview of the veteran
8 June 2018, 18:00 PM
A Review of The Sunset Club
'Boorha Binch' is the term used by walkers and wanderers in the historical urban jewel that are the Lodhi Gardens in central New Delhi.
1 June 2018, 18:00 PM
The Best Asian Short Stories: Stories from a Changing Continent
A son worries whether his mother, who is travelling alone, will be able to haul her luggage down from the conveyor belt. An elderly
1 June 2018, 18:00 PM
In an Old Metropolis Once We Lived
When I put my first step
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Art Against Genocide: A Testament of Time
As much as the ongoing Rohingya crisis is being extensively covered by the local and international media, the distinct lack of a serious
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
The Uprising of 1857
There is perhaps no event in the long history of the British empire in India that continues to exert so strong and abiding a fascination as the great uprising of 1857.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Pestilential Scourge - The Plague
Published in 1947, the background of Albert Camus' The Plague is that of Oran, a coastal town of colonial Algeria. The author certainly
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Professor Nurul Islam’s Odyssey
This book is the story of Professor Nurul Islam, arguably Bangladesh's most famous living economist. The narrative begins with his
17 May 2018, 18:57 PM
Once Upon a Night
Surabala and I went to school together, played husband and wife, being the kids that we were. Whenever I went to their house, her
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Going to Hatiya Island
At first sight of our island, I confess
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women
The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
ECLECTIC ESSAYS
Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Crescent: A Review
Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S., attracted an international readership when her debut novel Arabian Jazz
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Anne -The Hopeless Dreamer
If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Where Reality Meets Fiction
“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review
Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi
20 April 2018, 18:00 PM