literature

What to expect if you want to major in Bangla

Majoring in Bangla promises a journey through a kaleidoscope of academic marvels.

#Literature / Rivers in fiction: A unique genre of Bengali literature

With hundreds of waterways spread all over the country like a spider’s web, it’s only natural that rivers play a notable part in our lives. There are numerous novels focused on our riverine traditions, enough to call it a genre by itself.

BOI MELA 2024 / Navigating the Ekushey Boi Mela

With rows upon rows of book stalls offering everything from timeless classics to contemporary bestsellers, navigating through this maze of books can be both exhilarating and overwhelming

POETRY / palestine is my grieving mother

rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where  women like me plod one day at a time,

ESSAY / The controversial legacy of Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’

Readers often look for relatability in the stories and characters they are reading but Nabokov doesn’t give his readers that comfort or spoon feed them. Rather, he challenges them to eschew feeling compelled by Humbert’s justification of his innocence

Being a bookworm on a busy schedule

When you still approach reading in its ritualistic form every once in a while, it won’t feel like you’re “making time to read” but simply reading.

FICTION / What’s in a name?

He had been practising saying his name out loud every night before going to sleep so that his ears remained accustomed to hearing his own name

POETRY / Losing An Arm

It said, my body was no longer needed. / “This is the age of freedom. Let me go, and explore.”

ESSAY / On the many flavours of horror in children’s literature

What do we make of the mysterious thread that connects these stories not by genre, but by an imagination so wondrous they leave room for an underlying horror, and the many things that can mean?

October 28, 2023
October 28, 2023

Where to Start with Nobel Laureate, Jon Fosse

On 5th October, 2023 the acclaimed Norwegian playwright and poet, Jon Olav Fosse, won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

October 21, 2023
October 21, 2023

My London: An Immigrant Story

You Are a Rickshawallah

October 15, 2023
October 15, 2023

Books with playlists: A new trend among contemporary authors?

A question that comes to mind is why does a book even need a playlist? There are two solid answers.

October 12, 2023
October 12, 2023

Making a killing out of a killing

A visit to any bookshop today will attest to the reading public’s fascination with crime (and criminals).

October 12, 2023
October 12, 2023

Blood, rage and love on the verge of 1971

Reading Rahad Abir’s Bengal Hound, despite the novel being written in English, felt a lot like reading in Bangla. While no two languages can ever truly be compared, there is much to be said about seeing Bangla and Bangladesh through an English language lens.

October 9, 2023
October 9, 2023

Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

He told the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK that he was “surprised but also not” to have won.

October 8, 2023
October 8, 2023

Dancing on the pages

This week, then, we're thinking: music and books, music and literature. In print and online, we're dreaming in tunes, dancing with words, daring to merge the two.

October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023

Of love, longing, and music that make us

My mother’s house is beside a lake that separates the rich and mighty of the city from a little isle of people who work for them.

October 5, 2023
October 5, 2023

Music and the space it creates for literature

I cannot, for the life of me, definitively describe what makes music. Growing up in a family where music of any form was not typically paid any reverence, my exposure to it was tunnelled into mainstream pop songs for the longest time.

October 5, 2023
October 5, 2023

On music and literature in a Postcolonial context

As someone who is interested in Muslim novels—by which I mean novels written by Muslims about Muslims—I always feel a scholarly tug towards Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (Scribner, 1995) when speaking of the at times uneasy but mostly comfortable marriage between music and literature.

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