There are artists who belong to their time, and then there are those who bend time around them. Tareque Masud lived in that second realm. His work carried the pulse of a country still discovering its own voice, yet his craft looked far beyond borders. Even now, years after the road accident...
Oxford University Press has selected the phrase "rage bait" as its word of the year, pointing to a striking surge in its use and a broader shift in the dynamics of online engagement. The publisher’s analysis shows that the term has tripled in frequency over the past year, signalling growing...
To an untrained observer, the city, with its relentless honking, sprawling roadside vendors, and rumbling, smoke-belching buses, would appear a place too frenetic to entertain anything but exhaustion and monotony. But for Tousef, someone gifted in the ways of words and grief, the thrumming of the...
In the whispered breath of autumn’s golden twilight, there is a delicate lamentation - a rustle of fallen leaves, a chorus of memories, and a touch of nostalgia that sweeps through the heart like an old melody. Frank Sinatra’s rendition of Autumn Leaves casts this melancholic dance of the...
Born on 21 October 1926, Naushad Noori, a revolutionary Urdu poet, traversed political, linguistic and ideological landscapes, standing firm against imperialism and linguistic hegemony to become a key figure in both Urdu literature and Bangladesh’s leftist movements. Poetry often permeates the...
Autumn, in many parts of the world, is associated with the splendour of red and gold foliage, a season marked by the crispness of falling leaves and the gentle retreat of summer. However, in Bangladesh, a tropical land, the arrival of autumn is not heralded by these vivid colours, but by a...
