POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025, 19:31 PM
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LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Between home and elsewhere
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / An inter-cultural romance
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Lessons from our literary girls: Why freedom framed as favour is no freedom at all
26 November 2025, 11:18 AM
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ESSAY / When old patriarchies wear new faces
25 November 2025, 12:57 PM
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INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering
22 November 2025, 11:51 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Contested words, painful genealogies
19 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Stepping into the uncanny world of Franz Kafka
Through its blend of art, technology, and literature, “Celebrating Kafka” offers more than homage–it invites audiences to confront the absurdities of modern life and recognize that Kafka’s strange, unsettling world is still unmistakably our own.
26 October 2025, 11:55 AM
The perils of youth in ‘Theft’
Review of Abulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Theft’ (Riverhead Books, 2025)
25 October 2025, 10:41 AM
Between silence and song: Early Bangla literature and the poetics of the ‘Charyapada’
Pandit Haraprasad Shastri read—and was deeply inspired by—Raja Rajendralal Mitra’s seminal work Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, published in 1882. That book was instrumental in inaugurating a whole new age in the history of Bangla language and literature.
24 October 2025, 19:37 PM
Carnival of carnage
War scenes creep like a daily soap to watch for seasons on mobile screens now;
24 October 2025, 19:37 PM
From the prayer hall
Whose bell rings in the temple tonight?
Whose hymn rises from the Gospel's heart?
And in the call of Esha,
does the muezzin still implore—
"Come, come toward salvation"?
Across the purified valley of night,
from the world's scattered prayers,
24 October 2025, 19:37 PM
Let the queen rest in peace
Yukito Ayatsuji’s debut novel The Decagon House Murders was first published in Japan in 1978 and translated into English in 2020.
23 October 2025, 14:55 PM
Charting the south’s path
The book examines the context and circumstances that spurred these six central figures to devise or promote the solutions they did
22 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Leonard Cohen: Verses of mercy and turmoil
Before he was “Leonard Cohen—the celebrated singer”, he was “Cohen, the poet”.
22 October 2025, 13:45 PM
3 Partition stories for young readers
Here are three books on Partition that can be added to not only your child's but your own reading list.
21 October 2025, 13:45 PM
‘Barisal and Beyond’ reprinted: Celebrating Clinton B. Seely’s essays on Bangla literature
Dr Seely’s story in Bangladesh begins in Barisal Zilla School in 1963, while working as a volunteer for the American Peace Corps.
19 October 2025, 13:29 PM
A bit of Fry & Homer
Stephen Fry’s series, from the creation stories of Mythos and the monster-slaying of Heroes to the martial gore of Troy and now the cunning of Odyssey, is an undertaking of remarkable scale.
18 October 2025, 11:15 AM
Autumnal offerings for seasonal readers
As summer draws to an end in the Northern hemisphere, a certain kind of booklover prepares to shift to the next set of items on their TBR (To Be Read) list. Because whether or not you are a fan of spooky stories, the arrival of autumn–and with it, Halloween–evokes in many a sense of seasonal cre
17 October 2025, 18:58 PM
5 books to rescue you from brainrot
Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
Why academic writing deserves to be beautiful
The refusal to write beautifully is often justified in the name of neutrality, of detachment, of discipline.
17 October 2025, 04:45 AM
A mundane tragedy
In her first book Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (Anchor, 1999), Kiran Desai wrote a comic fable of a man who escapes the world by climbing a tree.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
The death of the film and the rise of its maker
Novels that explore the life of a filmmaker are few and far between. When I think of a film, it’s usually the actors that are at the center of my attention and more and more recent novels attest to that.
15 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Babitz vs. Ephron: The cool girls from the coast
Where Babitz is like the intimidating older sister you could only listen to in an obsessed quiet, Ephron feels more like a friend translating my internal monologue into the perfect words.
15 October 2025, 13:45 PM
Navigating the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist
This year’s Booker Prize will be announced on November 10 in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 and livestreamed on Booker Prize’s social channels.
12 October 2025, 10:49 AM
A good teacher teaches; an extraordinary teacher inspires
Today, I stood quietly for a while in front of Room 2064 on the second floor of the Arts Building—a place where I had stood countless times before, each time leaving with his warmth and affection.
11 October 2025, 16:00 PM
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM