Amreeta Lethe

Amreeta Lethe is a Sub editor at Star Books and Literature and the Editor-in-Chief at The Dhaka Apologue.

On travel and writing

It is perhaps not an overstatement to say that humans are, at their core, wanderers.

1m ago

6 books that shed light on student movements in Bangladesh

One of the movements which helped accelerate the Liberation War of Bangladesh was the Mass Uprising of 1969.

3m ago

The Story of Sharifa: One step forward, many steps backward?

“The Story of Sharifa” is just one instance in a dishearteningly long line of such measures

4m ago

It has to be print

There is something in the tactility of books that even non-readers find themselves admiring, and readers more so.

5m ago

Tongue

I heard myself speak today It made me want to Cut out my tongue.

8m ago

A Solo Exhibition

Never in his wildest imaginations had Aniket thought that everything would come together so well. Nearly everyone he invited had come.

9m ago

The Hermitage Residency: In Conversation with Arif Anwar and Julia Philips

Last week, Daily Star Books interviewed Bangladeshi-Canadian writer Arif Anwar, author of The Storm (2018), and American novelist Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth (2019).

1y ago

Of lost recipes and forgotten flavours

I have always had a rather avoidant recoil to the aftermath of death.