Noora Shamsi Bahar

Noora Shamsi Bahar is a senior lecturer at the Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University, and a published researcher and translator.

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’: Reverberating despair and dread through a theatrical production

All Quiet on the Western Front (Little, Brown and Company, 1929), a semi-autobiographical novel authored by a German World War I veteran, Erich Maria Remarque, is one of the greatest anti-war works of literature—one that was published nearly a century back and still holds relevance today

5d ago

Our schools must do more to stop bullying

Despite being quite the nerd, I found no solace in education.

1m ago

Why are men more outraged over pads than violence against women?

Men objected to the public display of sanitary napkins at the Ekushey Boi Mela.

2m ago

Online grooming and the fight to protect our children

Grooming of minors by paedophilic adults seems to be an overlooked yet pressing societal anomaly

2m ago

Disney’s ‘Moana’: An offensive portrayal of Polynesian culture and mythology

Unsurprisingly, the film’s directors, Ron Clements and John Musker, are white, and it is almost as if “whiteness” prevents artistes, such as film directors, from portraying the non-white peoples with a non-colonial lens.

6m ago

Iran’s presidential elections: A smokescreen?

Should we believe that the same man who didn’t believe in women’s right to freedom of choice is now a changed “reformist”?

9m ago

Is the theme of this year’s Met Gala ironically prophetic?

The parallel between the 2024 Met Gala and 'The Garden of Time,' a short speculative fiction written by JG Ballard, is uncanny.

12m ago

Say their names to save their lives

Let Toomaj Salehi’s words strike a chord in our hearts, a chord that will spur action, no matter how small

1y ago
April 7, 2022
April 7, 2022

Why it’s okay to forget the books you read

What makes them my favourites, if I can’t remember the names of the engrossing characters or the details of the intricate plots in some of my “favourite” books?

April 1, 2022
April 1, 2022

You’re obsessed with Wordle because…

Why is Wordle so addictive and why are a lot of people so obsessed with it?

March 21, 2022
March 21, 2022

Nothing is more alarming than when women do patriarchy’s work for it

A few days ago, a video that went viral showed a young college-going girl beating her harasser on a bus, ripping his shirt in the process, and making him beg for forgiveness.

February 19, 2022
February 19, 2022

Our selfish obsession with becoming parents

A nosy parker asks, “Why aren’t you having kids yet? You’ve been married for two years already! Why the delay?

January 31, 2022
January 31, 2022

The not-so-innocent side of mass-produced toys

We don’t normally think of toys from a critical perspective because, well, they’re just toys. But if one were to reflect on it, one might become easily disenchanted by these children’s playthings.

January 22, 2022
January 22, 2022

Mojaffor Hossain’s All the Sadeqs are getting killed

The most naïve boy of Dhabaldhola village had been murdered. The decapitated body lay on the demarcation line between the Bangari field and the Taro crop-field.

January 4, 2022
January 4, 2022

Five reasons why ‘safety zone’ for women is a bad idea

According to media reports, a 600-feet-long “safety zone” was recently allocated for women and children visiting Cox’s Bazar.

January 11, 2021
January 11, 2021

Schools must teach more than academic syllabus

The recent rape and consequent death of a school-going, 17-year-old girl fills one with rage and helplessness.

December 14, 2019
December 14, 2019

A Translation of Syed Manzoorul Islam’s “Seventy-One”

The title of the story could have been “Tiger,” just “Tiger,” as, for a few days in 1971, a tiger had been the cause of a massive terror to us.

October 12, 2019
October 12, 2019

A translation of Syed Manzoorul Islam’s short story, “Kathpoka”: Woodworms (Part II)

“I’m doing what I feel like doing. What’s that to you?” Aslam retorted. He opened the door and said, “Like mother, like daughter. Get lost.”