Jibanananda Das: A pioneer of surrealism in Bengali poetry

In his poetry, the differences between reality and unreality, conscious and unconscious, past and present, and life and death often get neutralized.
20 Oct 2026

Home is where the ghost is

In women’s Gothic fiction, the ghost is rarely the intruder
13 Oct 2026

Waliullah, away from home

The exile, the love, and the unfinished return of Syed Waliullah
10 Oct 2026

Why Bangladesh must rediscover the joy of reading

From school libraries to storytelling sessions, fostering a lifelong reading habit is key to...
06 Aug 2026

Planchette and séance: Bengali authors seeking messages from the dead

Kitabistan: A forgotten tale of partition

Gabo and his world in ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’

Collages of memory, history and literary insights

Individual and family in Anees Salim’s work

Universality of Charyapada, Dr Shahidullah and Octavio Paz

Owning Rabindranath

The road taken

Why I write what I write

Manto’s prophecy about US-Pakistan relations