The Whole Kahani’s ‘Tongues and Bellies’: A promising literary confection
Tongues and Bellies, published by Linen Press (2021), is described by its blurb as an anthology where “sensual and surprising stories play a tantalising game of hide and seek with lies and truth”.
2y ago
The comfort of books amidst wedding lights
It is December again and as evenings set in, Dhaka becomes brighter than it has been in the past few months.
2y ago
Matthew Salesses demystifies the craft of writing
Storytelling is a space in which, as writers and readers, we experience the ways of how we know the world and interact with it.
2y ago
The universality of solitude and good books in Jhumpa Lahiri's 'Whereabouts'
Whereabouts (Penguin India, 2021) is Jhumpa Lahiri’s third novel, published originally as Dove mi trovo (2018) in Italian and translated to English by the author herself, as she did with her work of nonfiction, In Other Words (2015).
2y ago
Remembering the Birangona: The power of personal narratives
The books we recall today, Ami Birangona Bolchi (1994), Rising from the Ashes (2001), and The Spectral Wound (2015), are among the documentations which highlight women’s voices and their perspectives of 1971.
2y ago
Women and Bangladesh's publishing industry
The publishing and literary world in Bangladesh have considerable visibility of women: some are authoritative figures in the literary and academic world, some run their own establishments and bookshops; others occupy senior positions in many of the local publishing houses and literary committees. However, like the systems and society we currently operate in, this industry is also influenced by the larger patriarchal structure.
3y ago
Netflix’s ‘The White Tiger’: A Lukewarm Translation of Rage On-screen
One can’t help but be excited about Netflix’s recent attempts at bringing to life and screen valuable works of South Asian fiction. Today’s focus, The White Tiger, which premiered on Netflix on January 21, 2021, was a debut novel by the Indian-Australian writer and journalist Aravind Adiga, who won critical acclaim and the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his critique of class and caste boundaries in India.
3y ago
Dissent through the Ages in the Indian Subcontinent
Eminent scholar and Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Romila Thapar, in her latest book, Voices of Dissent (Seagull Books, 2020), explores important perspectives on dissent located in the historical and contemporary context of the Indian subcontinent.
3y ago
July 2, 2020
Reading Sontag in the pandemic
At the time of writing this article, the number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh crept towards 140,000. This crises has brought forth an old conundrum: we rarely think of diseases as a part of ourselves,
September 3, 2015
E02: REARRANGE ME
There are Things that come crawling in the night. In the darkest hours. They crawl under your skin and along your spine in the silence that follows the falling apart of worlds.
August 20, 2015
Animal Cruelty Laws Resurrected
Three youths were caught beating a dog in Rampura. The rescuers found the dog fighting for his life, and took him to a vet and later to the Obhoyaronno Clinic for treatment.
August 6, 2015
MEN'S RIGHTS
Men want rights and so they should. But why in the name of free drinks?
July 16, 2015
KolpoKoushol: A Knowledge Initiative
The World Bank's Knowledge Economic Index ranks innovation in Bangladesh at 191 and shows a long and winding road ahead for innovation and technology here.
July 2, 2015
Living with Loss
I still pick up the phone and dial your number, the one number I have dialed everyday for the last 2 months.
July 2, 2015
Fragile Things: Charming and creepy
Fragile Things is not a conventional short story collection. It is quite possibly an odd and approximate sketch of what the inside of Neil Gaiman's head looks like.
June 11, 2015
Dialogue and Discourse
The importance of debating in the development of thinkers and leaders has been stressed repeatedly.
June 4, 2015
Hell is a Circus
He knew where he was, just as he knew that the thing on the other end of darkness was a demon. His demon.
May 28, 2015
Dhaka MoocXchange: Online classrooms
In Bangladesh, where degrees are valued in terms of the best jobs they can bring, who would want a degree on the genesis of rock and roll?
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