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Enter 'Alphabetica': Vowels form a unique minority in Roy Phoenix’s satire
At its core, Alphabetica is a satire on majoritarianism.
What we readers want from Zoya Akhtar’s ‘The Archies’
What we want to see is the original comics' innocence revisited.
Enter 'Alphabetica': Vowels form a unique minority in Roy Phoenix’s satire
At its core, Alphabetica is a satire on majoritarianism.
Sabiha Huq's 'The Aviary': History depicted by three Mughal princesses and a Kashmiri queen
Sabiha Huq excavates and discusses overlooked texts written by Muslim women and questions the position of women within Islamic cultures in South Asia at large.
For fans of ‘Heartstopper’, an Alice Oseman reading guide
I wanted to share my personal reading order of Alice’s work and a glance into what you can expect from each.
UPL launches book, ‘Millennial Generation in Bangladesh’
The book in question, according to the blurb on UPL’s website, asks noteworthy questions like, “How do [Millennials] identify themselves in the social and national contexts and how can the nation&...
Libraries in south Dhaka ceasing to exist
Rokanpur Library, located on the third floor of Rokonpur Community Center beside Kabi Nazrul Government College in Laxmibazar, can hardly be called a library anymore. It suffers from a shortage of...
Reading tips for a full-time working mom
As I wrote in “Motherhood—the story of a transformed reader”, my essay for Daily Star Books on International Mother’s Day on
ULAB English department to launch Literary Salon on Saturday
In an initiative that is first of its kind, the Department of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh is launching the ULAB Literary Salon on Saturday, May 14.
Is there a way out of the ethno-political cauldron in India’s far-east?
After describing why this region is India’s gateway to realising its eastern ambitions, Sudeep soon cuts to the chase, stating that the Naga peace process is central to establishing peace in...
The 'idol-breaker' of Iran: poet Forough Farrokhzad
She would be the first woman in the history of Persian literature to publish poems that spoke openly of women, sexuality, longings, and equality.