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
Reviews
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
Reviews
Ann Patchett’s ‘The Dutch House’: On branches of memories and pain
21 June 2021, 13:39 PM
Reviews
Pahela Baishakh in Carbondale
Celebrating Pahela Baishakh is only getting more and more colorful. It is no less than a carnival these days. As far I can remember,
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
A Review of His Chariot of Life: Liberation War, Politics and Sojourn in Jail
After Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was slapped an uncertain prison term at the end of what he describes as a 'kangaroo trial,' on 18
13 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Women at War: Shongramee Naree 52 and 71
Since the Liberation War in 1971 the readers in Bangladesh have seen many narratives on 1971 and 1952. In most of these, the central
6 April 2018, 18:00 PM
A GREEN DOVE IN SILENCE: FORTY PROSE POEMS IN TRANSLATION
There is a feel good factor about Gauranga Mohanta's collection of prose poems A Green Dove in Silence. A neat jacket, crispy pages,
6 April 2018, 18:00 PM
BLRC Observes World Poetry Day
“Poetry should be free from Royalist Canada's university elites' hierarchy to come down to mass people” - was the resounding declaration
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
REMINISCING HALCYON ELITE DAYS
Days with Dinko and other Memories, written by Monica Chanda, and edited and published by her daughter Malavika Karlekar, is a
30 March 2018, 18:00 PM
BRAVERY HAS NO AGE RESTRICTION
With the rise of fake Freedom Fighter certificates, it is nearly impossible not to be a cynic when one hears about early teen or eleven
16 March 2018, 18:00 PM
My Absence
In the sultry air of March yawns my absence.
16 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Colonial History Disrupted: Interpreting the Bottom Line
As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has been a 540% increase in Fentanyl-related deaths over the past three
16 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Un-Romanticising the Colonial History
Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The
16 March 2018, 18:00 PM
The Tide of Nationalism in the Rise of Bangladesh
Nationalism is one of the most powerful political ideologies of the world and its wave still vibrates through the Indian subcontinent
9 March 2018, 18:00 PM
LOVE THE ENDURING KIND
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
9 March 2018, 18:00 PM
A G Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University
“The book is a memoir, not a history, and makes no claim to a historian's detachment or research.” With this statement, A G Stock
2 March 2018, 18:00 PM
They Also Were Involved
The subtitle of the book proposes it all: fourteen writers reminisce about their own, or their dear ones' experiences immediately prior to, or during, or at the end of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
16 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Verses on love and agony: Mashuk Chowdhury's Swarger Replica
Two years earlier I had reviewed one of Mashuk Chowdhury's poetry collections Nodir Nam Dusshomoy for The Daily Star Book Review
9 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?
“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction and non-fiction” (Claire Battershill in “No One Wants Biography”).
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
Making Revolution Strange/r: Viktor Shklovsky and the Bolsheviks
1978. When Serena Vitale, an Italian writer and translator, managed her third meeting with Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984), the
2 February 2018, 18:00 PM
ALL WORK AND SOME PLAY AT RADA
Rada was a lot of hard work interspersed with a good deal of pressure releasers. Talk about the right doses of work and play—RADA
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Revisiting Banaphool's Stories
No life can simply be subsumed under a single category- nor is it possible to come up with a single term to define life's fluxes or
26 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Of Jean Paul Sartre and Imposture
In October 1964, Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French philosopher and novelist, was declared winner of the Nobel Prize for literature for that year.
19 January 2018, 18:00 PM