literature
Is A level Literature right for you?
A level Literature in English carries a reputation for being time-consuming and intellectually challenging. Yet, it's a brilliant subject for those passionate about language and storytelling.
4 March 2025, 08:29 AM
A tribute to Jowshan Ara Rahman
I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I visited her home to interview her husband, Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury, the poet who wrote the first poem on Ekushey.
10 November 2024, 07:00 AM
After the rain
While leaving the institute, a nurse gave me a packet of cigarettes as a token of friendship
31 May 2024, 18:00 PM
The whimsical storytelling of video games
Creating a video game, especially one that is storyline-based or an open-world role-playing game, is like creating an entirely new universe
24 May 2024, 14:32 PM
Insomnia
You are wide awake again
28 April 2024, 14:00 PM
Intertextuality in Shahaduz Zaman’s ‘Prithibite Hoyto Brihaspatibar’
Shahaduz Zaman stands out prominently as a significant figure in the contemporary Bangla literary landscape, utilising intertextuality throughout his works, and infusing various texts and genres into his narratives.
26 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Schools need to rethink how they teach Literature
Schools must revamp literature education to foster creativity.
25 April 2024, 09:24 AM
Relaxed reminiscences
(For Lutfa, Nayeem, and Aarong Herbal Hair Pack)
17 April 2024, 15:00 PM
Sheikh Zayed Book Award announces winners for the 18th edition
The winners were announced on 4 April, 2024, with the ceremony being hosted by Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, chairman of the SZBA Board of Trustees
7 April 2024, 14:09 PM
What to expect if you want to major in Bangla
Majoring in Bangla promises a journey through a kaleidoscope of academic marvels.
22 February 2024, 00:00 AM
Rivers in fiction: A unique genre of Bengali literature
With hundreds of waterways spread all over the country like a spider’s web, it’s only natural that rivers play a notable part in our lives. There are numerous novels focused on our riverine traditions, enough to call it a genre by itself.
19 February 2024, 08:34 AM
Navigating the Ekushey Boi Mela
With rows upon rows of book stalls offering everything from timeless classics to contemporary bestsellers, navigating through this maze of books can be both exhilarating and overwhelming
15 February 2024, 11:52 AM
palestine is my grieving mother
rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where women like me plod one day at a time,
9 February 2024, 18:00 PM
The controversial legacy of Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’
Readers often look for relatability in the stories and characters they are reading but Nabokov doesn’t give his readers that comfort or spoon feed them. Rather, he challenges them to eschew feeling compelled by Humbert’s justification of his innocence
16 January 2024, 15:00 PM
Being a bookworm on a busy schedule
When you still approach reading in its ritualistic form every once in a while, it won’t feel like you’re “making time to read” but simply reading.
10 January 2024, 10:07 AM
What’s in a name?
He had been practising saying his name out loud every night before going to sleep so that his ears remained accustomed to hearing his own name
19 December 2023, 16:15 PM
Losing An Arm
It said, my body was no longer needed. / “This is the age of freedom. Let me go, and explore.”
18 December 2023, 15:00 PM
On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature
What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?
5 December 2023, 13:45 PM
Of faith: Mother and memories
Back in 2006 at the age of 11, I was introduced to faith, in the most domestic way possible.
24 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Where to Start with Nobel Laureate, Jon Fosse
On 5th October, 2023 the acclaimed Norwegian playwright and poet, Jon Olav Fosse, won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
28 October 2023, 13:40 PM