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Crescent: A Review
Diana Abu-Jaber, a Jordanian-American writer based in U.S.,...
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Where Reality Meets Fiction
“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said...
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Jibanananda Das: Baitarani
I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—
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Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review
Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has...
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Anne -The Hopeless Dreamer
If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of...
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A Review of His Chariot of Life: Liberation War, Politics and Sojourn in Jail
After Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was slapped an uncertain prison term...
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Pahela Baishakh in Carbondale
Celebrating Pahela Baishakh is only getting more and more colorful....
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REMINISCING HALCYON ELITE DAYS
Days with Dinko and other Memories, written by Monica Chanda, and...
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Snippets
Her: Seen yesterday's sunset?
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A GREEN DOVE IN SILENCE: FORTY PROSE POEMS IN TRANSLATION
There is a feel good factor about Gauranga Mohanta's...
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BLRC Observes World Poetry Day
“Poetry should be free from Royalist Canada's university...
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Un-Romanticising the Colonial History
Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to...
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Women at War: Shongramee Naree 52 and 71
Since the Liberation War in 1971 the readers in Bangladesh have...
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I Can Choose to Go, But Why Should I?
Perhaps, it is better to turn around.
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Colonial History Disrupted: Interpreting the Bottom Line
As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has...
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My Absence
In the sultry air of March yawns my absence.
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LOVE THE ENDURING KIND
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
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Verses on love and agony: Mashuk Chowdhury's Swarger Replica
Two years earlier I had reviewed one of Mashuk Chowdhury's...
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BRAVERY HAS NO AGE RESTRICTION
With the rise of fake Freedom Fighter certificates, it is nearly...
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A G Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University
“The book is a memoir, not a history, and makes no claim to a...
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Making Revolution Strange/r: Viktor Shklovsky and the Bolsheviks
1978. When Serena Vitale, an Italian writer and translator, managed...
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The Tide of Nationalism in the Rise of Bangladesh
Nationalism is one of the most powerful political ideologies of the...
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They Also Were Involved
The subtitle of the book proposes it all: fourteen writers...
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Going Beyond Gossip and Name-Dropping?
“Biographies do walk the 'precarious high wire between fiction...
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Revisiting Banaphool's Stories
No life can simply be subsumed under a single category- nor is it possible to come up with a single term to define life's fluxes or
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ALL WORK AND SOME PLAY AT RADA
Rada was a lot of hard work interspersed with a good deal of pressure releasers. Talk about the right doses of work and play—RADA
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Two Poems by Maruful Islam
The last traces of water evaporate from the beak of the wind
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Through Time and Tide
Boats: A Treasure of Bangladesh acts as a paean to the ancient, yet now sadly dying craft of naval carpentry in Bangladesh. Its roots in the region go back far enough for Ibn Battuta...
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Of Jean Paul Sartre and Imposture
In October 1964, Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, a French philosopher and novelist, was declared winner of the Nobel Prize for literature for that year.
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Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim “Other”
As Bangladesh continues to grapple with the massive influx of Rohingya refugees, an unprecedented spotlight has been shone on the
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Rediscovering Origin
These two questions happen to be at the heart of human knowledge and rationality, and the focal point of Dan Brown's ground-
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SKETCHES ON A WIDE CAMPUS
This book's subtitle, Sketches from my Life gestures helpfully at the book's content for it is about the full and colorful life lived by its
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Efflorescence of South Asian Sci Fi?
I have long been a reader of science fiction. Not just for entertainment, but also for insights useful for my research and teaching.
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Church Bells and Darjeeling Tea
The title of the book entices the reader. We all love Darjeeling tea, but why 'Church bells?' Zeena Chowdhury's experience of
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Is It Truth or Dare?
Those familiar with Nadia Kabir Barb's column Straight Talk in The Daily Star will be pleased with her short fiction debut Truth or Dare.
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An Impression of Some Turbulent Days
First published in 1973, Amy Geraldine Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University: 1947-1951, is not just another memoir. The current
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Partition, 1947—Whodunnit?
On August 26, 2017, DS brought out a special supplement on the1947 partition of Bengal. It contained fine articles on the subject by
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Stories from the Edge
A perfect read for the month of our victory, Stories from the Edge is an anthology of personal and deeply emotional narratives of our
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DANCING IN THE DARK: MY STRUGGLE BOOK 4
This is the fourth installment of the six-volume autobiography of Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard and has been translated
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The Art World is Essentially Male
In 1666 Margaret Cavendish wrote a science fiction work titled The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World, although it
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The Vanishing American Adult
Benjamin Eric Sasse aka Ben Sasse is a freshman Republican Senator from Nebraska. A doctorate in American History from Yale, Sasse was named President of Midwestern University, Freemont Nebraska in 2010.
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Art and Poetry Makes Singing in Dark Times More Relevant
The poet may be the priest of the invisible if we are to concur with Wallace Stevens. When art and poetry intersect, the invisible suddenly turns into the visible truth and this visible art is the skein that keeps the freedom of expression
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ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM WINS THE DSC PRIZE FOR 2017
Anuk Arudpragasam has been announced the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage at the Dhaka Lit on the 18th November, 2017.
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DLF DIARIES
I wrote this for you, Mamma—for being insufferable on Day 1,
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Using Fictional Techniques to Write History
The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple is the most engrossing book that I've read recently.
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9/11 Cataclysm and Sustaining Fear
The other day I was reading Deepa Kumar's Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire while traveling on a bus from Rajshahi to my home
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Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute
Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
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Poetry with Emily Dickinson
Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with
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Was Marx Really Right?
Readers familiar with Terry Eagleton's work would have no doubt from the title of his Why Marx Was Right that it would offer a strong
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Some Scattered Thoughts on the Russian Revolution
It seems our era has just stumbled upon its second major crisis—one brought about fascism. The rise of xenophobic racism, religious
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October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania
Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;
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Intriguing Statecraft and Enigmatic Politics
Looked at from a political perspective, Bangladesh will always seem to be a land of democratic upheavals and agitations that has
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The Forty Rules of Love
This Turkish author has made her presence felt in the global literary scene with her ten novels over the last two decades. Among her
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How Cute Button Eyes Are, Really?
There are "children's" books which will make you travel down memory lane, and then there are "children's" books which will make you