BOOK REVIEW: CHILDREN’S LITERATURE / Revisiting forgotten babyhood days with ‘Babuibela’
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Tahmima Anam’s ‘The Startup Wife’ arrives at Baatighar
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New online journal ‘Kitchen Sink’ promises an accessible platform for poets
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Is Netflix’s ‘Ray’ worth the watch?
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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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Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute
Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Was Marx Really Right?
Readers familiar with Terry Eagleton's work would have no doubt from the title of his Why Marx Was Right that it would offer a strong
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania
Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Some Scattered Thoughts on the Russian Revolution
It seems our era has just stumbled upon its second major crisis—one brought about fascism. The rise of xenophobic racism, religious
27 October 2017, 18:00 PM
How Cute Button Eyes Are, Really?
There are "children's" books which will make you travel down memory lane, and then there are "children's" books which will make you
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Forty Rules of Love
This Turkish author has made her presence felt in the global literary scene with her ten novels over the last two decades. Among her
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Intriguing Statecraft and Enigmatic Politics
Looked at from a political perspective, Bangladesh will always seem to be a land of democratic upheavals and agitations that has
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Of Ball Gowns, Corsages, and Tuxes
In more ways than one, an anthology is like an assorted box of candies; you never know what's coming next; 21 Proms is no exception to
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Political Economy of Unpeopling of Indigenous Peoples: the Case of Bangladesh
The word 'people' is a very common and widely used term but the prefix 'un' and the suffix 'ing' makes it perfect as the title of Political
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
The Politics of a Violent Decolonization
Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury's Jatiotabad, Samprodaikata O JonogonerMukti: 1905-47 or Nationalism, Communalism and
6 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger
While everyone knows J.D. Salinger for his widely-acclaimed masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, very few are familiar with his other
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Farah Ghuznavi's Fragments of Riversong: Ballads for Our Time
Long ago, I read somewhere that writing short stories is more difficult than writing a novel. While writing about Fragments of
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
For the War Heroines, I will Speak
It was 1996 when I first got hold of Dr. Nilima Ibrahim's Aami Birangana Bolchhi, or rather, the book got hold of me—my soul, my
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Boy Who Lived in a Graveyard
Heartwrenching, un-put-down-able, and deliciously dark, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is winner of numerous literary awards for
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Byajstuti: Sadness of Daily Life
Anarchy has become like daily soap in our day-to-day life. Most of us seem to be “know all, see all” types, but say nothing.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewelry
“I started collecting stories and ideas about rings over the years... Over these years, wherever I went, no matter what people asked me
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Ashapurna Devi and the Feminist Consciousness in Bengal: A Biocritical Reading
The book engages with a critical discussion on feminist consciousness in India, perhaps in South Asia, as to the attributes of feminist
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, the editors of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
A 21st Century Novel: Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace
It is awkward to write about a novel when one is not a literary critic. The task is all the more daunting, given that unlike Tahmima
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM
The Bones of Grace or the Coming-of-Age of a Writer
Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace is the last in the trilogy that began with A Golden Age and was followed up by The Good Muslim.
8 September 2017, 18:00 PM