Essay / Celebrating literary minds: Reflections on editing festschrifts
26 September 2026
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Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Birthdays to remember
26 September 2026
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Literature
Essay / Whose literary production?: Anthropic’s Project Panama
5 September 2026
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Essay
‘Belonging’: Sonia Gandhi memoir set for November 10 release
19 August 2026
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Books
John Cusack backs NEET protesters, shares Arundhati Roy’s article
24 July 2026
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Entertainment
Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026
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Books & Literature
Veteran singer Ferdausi Rahman’s autobiography launched at Bengal Shilpalay
8 July 2026
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Books
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
3 July 2026
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Literature
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026
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The Shelf
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026
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What to read
A Surprisingly Not Overdone Fantasy-Romance
A few weeks ago, flipping through TV channels brought me to Beautiful Creatures.
22 March 2017
Abul Mansur Ahmad: A Versatile Genius
It was in a most turbulent period of the history of Bengal that Abul Mansur Ahmad fought hard against social prejudice and religious bigotry.
17 March 2017
New Books
Akshata Ayna
12 March 2017
In the face of death
The Plague, a philosophical novel, written by Albert Camus is considered one of the greatest novels of 20th century. Camus was an
12 March 2017
A girl's passage from tears to happiness
JANE Eyre is one of the finest novels by the English fictionist Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). This novel tells us the story of an orphan
12 March 2017
Job-Makers in the making
AUTHOR: MD. SABUR KHAN
12 March 2017
Language and the Presidency
I ended my last piece with a promise not to waste any more words on the self-publicist and arch-troll Milo Yiannopoulos. I break that
10 March 2017
The Poet and the Emperor
The Emperor became disillusioned &frustrated
10 March 2017
Kamal Chowdhury's soul-searching odyssey
A unique voice that combines passion and fire with utmost discipline, Kamal Chowdhury has been active in Bangladesh's poetry scene
10 March 2017
Penetrative Tales on Social Aberrations
As far as the history of modern Bengali literature is concerned, references to Abul Mansur Ahmed's name come up as an inevitable
5 March 2017
Men-Women Relationship in Nineteenth Century Bengal
The story begins like this. Dr. Bilkis Rahman read the autobiography of noted author Mir Mosharraf Hossain and discovered a rosy
5 March 2017
Of Paths and Walkers
“WHAT is great in the realm of art might not be equally acceptable in the realm of morality; similarly what morality finds laudable
5 March 2017
New Books
Payraband kahini is a book of Puthi Sahitto (a special genre of literature written in a mixed vocabulary drawn from Bangla, Arabic,
5 March 2017
TO RABINDRANATH
You're still fresh in my mind,
3 March 2017
Lonely Star
Like a lonely star in the heaven
3 March 2017
NUGGETS FROM THE KOLKATA LITERARY MEET 2017
I have always been fascinated by the person and work of the great poet Javed Akhtar and so I am delighted to have a chance to hear
3 March 2017
Aphorisms of Humayun Azad
Aphorisms of Humayun Azad is the translation of Humayun Azad's groundbreaking book Prabachanguchchha. The
26 February 2017
Tabuo Bristy Asuk
'Tabuo Bristy Asuk' of Shafiqul Islam is a book of poetry. It was published in February, 2007. This book consists of 41
26 February 2017
Search for Self
Jhumpa Lahiri, a well-known voice of diasporic literature and very popular among the contemporary writers of world
26 February 2017
Poisoned Wells: A Tender Tale of Love and Death
when the well is dry,we learn the worth of water”—Benjamin Franklin
26 February 2017