It was on a Monday morning that I was running late for work. To compound my problems, traffic was heavier than usual and only later,

Hope this mail finds you still playing to life's songs in perfect beats. However challenging the tunes are, I know that you will bear with

Today is the 118th birth anniversary of poet Jibanananda Das, a legend in Bengali literature. We remember him in this day with the greatest reverence.

With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.

Though Wiles is absent from these narratives, their seamless clarity is evidence of her skill as an interviewer and editor. Her introductions are invaluable in setting these writers in the context of their physical and cultural environment.

Morning comes upon us, a yawn...

Oh Rosie, Rosie my girl

During 25 years of its journey, The Daily Star has unfolded inspiring stories and taken numerous initiatives to make a difference. In alignment with this spirit, The Daily Star arranged an online campaign marking 25 years of Journalism without fear and favour where online readers were urged to submit their inspiring stories.

Eminent short story writer of Bangla literature Hasan Azizul Huq turns 77.

The night was still, sacred and dark

Every day unbundles pain for this stranger in his cycle of despair.

She cruised through her grades with tremendous ease and ended up giving the school finals a year earlier than her peers. She was fifteen then.

One of the foremost modernists of the Twentieth century, Virginia Woolf gained fame for her nonlinear, free prose style which not only inspired her peers but also earned her accolade. Yesterday was her 134th birth anniversary and to commemorate the day we have put together a list of the writer’s most iconic works.

Hogarth Press has commissioned a series of 'retellings' of Shakespeare plays. First to appear is Jeanette Winterson's take on The Winter's Tale.

Fractals is an encounter with a design paradigm, a certain matryoshka revelation of dolls-within-dolls.

The fluffy white puffs turned to a discordant grey

I see a black darkness

Rashna set out to meet Abedin on the Saturday after the incident at the procession, and on the way to the hospital in a rickshaw, she debated whether she was doing the right thing. It wasn't her responsibility to keep in touch with Abedin, but they had shared a perilous experience together, which seemed to make them more than strangers. They were both supposed to have been cut into pieces by Taleb and his men, but had miraculously survived. It still seemed unreal to Rashna because this sort of thing only happens in Bollywood movies.

Sometimes I walk away from plights in my life

Tobias Wolff would like to think his first published novel, “Ugly Rumours”, did not exist. It does not come up on any official list of his publications...