Syed Manzoorul Islam was one of our most popular educationists. He was an internationally known intellectual and one of the foremost of Bangladeshi storytellers or essayists or critics. I wrote this piece when he approached […]
There was the quality of spring in him. In his eyes, in the smile he exuded everywhere, in the statements he made on different occasions at various points in time, it was spring, an abundance […]
Syed Manzoorul Islam’s Absurd Night is an interesting study on how magic realism works in a different country far away from Marquez’s: Bangladesh. Pushpita Alam translated it from Bengali. It is about a severed hand […]
Original: Syed Manzoorul Islam Translation: Himadri Lahiri [English translation of the chapter titled “Shilper Sundor O Asundor” from Syed Manzoorul Islam’s Bengali book Nandantattwa] In art, one encounters expressions of both beauty and ugliness. It […]
Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950), a renowned Bengali author, is known outside Bengal chiefly for his novel Pather Panchali (1928). Satyajit Ray’s film adaptation of the novel in 1955 and its English translation Pather Panchali: Song of […]
What the mother sang is indeed the central focus of this volume of sixty-two poems. In the title poem “When My Mother Sang,” the twelfth in the book, the mother’s song is the source of […]
In The Chrono-Healers: Origins, Rito Chatterjee crafts a sprawling, time-bending science fiction saga that is as politically charged as it is narratively ambitious. Set against the backdrop of a post-COVID, post-apocalyptic Earth, the novel imagines […]
For years, I had no idea that the Chakma alphabet existed. Growing up, my family never mentioned it, and it wasn’t part of my school curriculum. Like many others in the Chakma community, I communicated […]
Kanak Chanpa Chakma, renowned artist from Bangladesh, is famous for her ability to portray Indigenous identity narratives and traditions through her creative process. Her unique creations contain bold colours, intricate details, and evocative portrayals of […]
Art serves as a lens through which we decode the complexities of society, and printmaking—with its intricate processes and tactile nature—offers a distinct means to explore these layers. In my recent work, Dialectical Reality (Figure […]
Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh
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