I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I visited her home to interview her husband, Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury, the poet who wrote the first poem on Ekushey.
While leaving the institute, a nurse gave me a packet of cigarettes as a token of friendship
Creating a video game, especially one that is storyline-based or an open-world role-playing game, is like creating an entirely new universe
You are wide awake again
Shahaduz Zaman stands out prominently as a significant figure in the contemporary Bangla literary landscape, utilising intertextuality throughout his works, and infusing various texts and genres into his narratives.
Schools must revamp literature education to foster creativity.
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The winners were announced on 4 April, 2024, with the ceremony being hosted by Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, chairman of the SZBA Board of Trustees
Majoring in Bangla promises a journey through a kaleidoscope of academic marvels.
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
rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where women like me plod one day at a time,
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
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.
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
It said, my body was no longer needed. / “This is the age of freedom. Let me go, and explore.”
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?
Back in 2006 at the age of 11, I was introduced to faith, in the most domestic way possible.
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.”
You Are a Rickshawallah
