Why Duane Michals’s beautiful fictions matter more than facts
For nearly two centuries, photography functioned under a Faustian pact.
It promised the public an absolute, objective truth in exchange for ...
Before travel influencers….there was Feluda
Roid's original sin
Inside Roid's endless, trance-like cycle
The haunting, circular beauty of Roid
The sound of a culture unable to burn
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Diplomacy à la Carte
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The end of Bangladesh’s ‘pulp empire’
On an overcast Wednesday evening, the news flickered on my facebook feed that Sheba Prokashoni, the publisher that practically industrialised ...
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Ghanada’s republic of wit, tall tales….and fish cutlets
In the boarding house at 72 Banamali Naskar Lane, somewhere in the smoky, argumentative geography of north Calcutta, a tall ...
13 May 2026 17:30 PM
The curious case of Feluda’s immortality…
Beyond his brilliant sleuthing, Feluda’s endurance is fueled by his ability to soothe the collective cultural nerves of his readers ...
02 May 2026 22:36 PM
The rebel poet who knew how to style
To speak of Kazi Nazrul Islam is almost always to speak of fire…of rebellion, of poetry that refused to kneel, ...
01 May 2026 07:44 AM
India, and the world, loses the lens of Raghu Rai
My first (and only so far) meeting with Raghu Rai came by chance.
During my posting in New Delhi as ...
26 Apr 2026 22:45 PM
The quiet loneliness of a mind shaped by books
Those who grow up immersed in books often find themselves standing alone at a certain point in life, feeling a ...
23 Apr 2026 18:51 PM
Faith, betrayal…and the cost of revolution in Iran
During my PhD in the US, I worked in a laboratory that might as well have been an annex of ...
02 Mar 2026 17:43 PM
The ‘Chhapri’ masculinity that’s warping a generation of male in Bangladesh
Across eras and civilizations, the world has essentially reduced manhood to two archetypes–the defender and the conqueror. ...
21 Nov 2025 17:09 PM
Dhaka University’s manuscripts are a hidden treasure trove..
Inside Dhaka University Library’s 30,000+ manuscripts—Bangla to Persian—treasures from 640 AD Sharadatilak to Padmapuran; digitization advances amid fragile preservation. ...
26 Sep 2025 20:45 PM
The Sting, the Condor, and the Cowboy: A farewell to Robert Redford
Celebrate the legacy of Robert Redford—beyond his iconic Sundance Kid persona—as a versatile actor who shaped the buddy movie genre, ...
19 Sep 2025 13:11 PM
The rebel pen that made Bengal's Muslims dare to dream
Explore the life and legacy of Mir Mosharraf Hossain, the pioneering Bengali Muslim writer who reshaped 19th-century Bengal’s cultural identity ...
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