As the year begins, Dhaka’s theatre scene is set to welcome two new plays— "Satkahon" by Navarasa Dance and Theatre Company and "The Rules of Love," a production by students from the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University.

Dipabali’s character in Satkahon said aloud what was on every girl’s mind.

The last rites of the renowned writer, beloved by readers in both Bengals, was held yesterday.

It concerns me that Tate’s apologists range from impressionable boys in my grade 9 classroom to 30-something-year-old single dads. My own mother calls me a ‘feminist’ with such chagrin in her tone, it begins to feel like a slur.