BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Let the queen rest in peace
23 October 2025, 14:55 PM
Book Review: Nonfiction / Charting the south’s path
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
FICTION BOOK REVIEW: Fragments of memory and regret
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
ESSAY / Leonard Cohen: Verses of mercy and turmoil
22 October 2025, 13:45 PM
THE SHELF / 3 Partition stories for young readers
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A bit of Fry & Homer
18 October 2025, 11:15 AM
Fiction / Free at last
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
REFLECTIONS / Autumnal offerings for seasonal readers
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
THE SHELF / 5 books to rescue you from brainrot
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
Under the olive tree
Then you will vanish—becoming Amma, Chachi, Mami. No one will remember your name.
27 June 2025, 18:43 PM
Dhaka in slow motion
The city still wants to breathe.
27 June 2025, 18:42 PM
Reading Baitullah Quaderee: A critic’s view of a poetic decade
When I picked up Baitullah Quaderee’s 'Bangladesher Shater Dashaker Kabita', it wasn’t particularly out of scholarly curiosity. The book is, by design, a doctoral thesis—its structure conventional, its chapters arranged by academic demand—but what caught my interest was not the format, nor even the topic. It was the author himself.
26 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Who is feminist literature for?
For today’s feminists, the focus isn’t just on challenging or breaking social norms, but also on asking, who gets to break these norms? And to what extent?
26 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Writing a memoir
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches
…flaxen against the lights
20 June 2025, 19:10 PM
In defense of disorder
At a gathering in the unfinished community hall, Saleha raises a question: "They gave us walls. But what do we want to grow inside them?"
20 June 2025, 19:09 PM
When the moon dances with elephants
In Lakshmi’s Secret Diary, Ari Gautier crafts a dazzling, multi-layered narrative that is as whimsical as it is profound.
19 June 2025, 18:00 PM
To flee, to remember
Every year, on June 20, World Refugee Day calls on us to remember and hold in our hearts the millions displaced by conflict, persecution, and political upheaval around the world.
19 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Daddy issues and female writers: About absent fathers in pop culture
In "Daddy," the speaker's inability to speak is not merely personal trauma but a symbol of women's historical silencing.
16 June 2025, 14:30 PM
Ink, jasmine, and the ghost of Ma: Unlearning my father
When it comes to our fathers, especially the ones who try to be good men, a rampant affliction known as patriarchy has left us with no language to imagine them outside of what they were to others. Strip away the roles, and what’s left?
15 June 2025, 08:01 AM
4 Bangla books with tender yet complex father figures
These paternal characters are not easy to love, nor can they love faultlessly themselves. Yet it is precisely this contradiction—their awkward tenderness, silent failures, and undeniable devotion—that makes them so achingly human
15 June 2025, 05:00 AM
Nani’s salt
Her voice, thin as a whisper, sharp as a blade, sliced through the kitchen air thick with mustard oil and regret.
13 June 2025, 19:46 PM
The people within me
I am not a single name.
Not a single wound.
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Polychrome
I made my first kite out of white paper scraps; on my 16th birthday, it came to me that they needed a pop of color.
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Fragments
Grey chips of rough cement
Rust rubble all around,
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
Mosaicked wounds
This was the way it ended: not with fire,
But carried quietly under sleep-beds,
13 June 2025, 19:45 PM
The evolution of theater magazines in Bengal
Dr Babul Biswas’s Theaterer Kagoj Jotorokom Daay is a thoughtful and detailed study of the evolution of theater in Bengal and Bangladesh, through the lens of theatre-focused little magazines.
11 June 2025, 18:00 PM
From cultural beacon to battleground: The DU English Department at 100
Imagine that a 104 years after its inception, the Department of English of Dhaka University wakes up on a July morning to see its rain soaked campus abuzz with young men and women walking past the Aparajeyo Bangla,
11 June 2025, 18:00 PM
Metalheart
I know my engine is dying. I know that, by the time the next Eid rolls around, the busy little humans will have taken me apart to create something new.
8 June 2025, 09:00 AM
I loved you because I did
So go in peace, be free, be kind.
8 June 2025, 09:00 AM