Here is a list of 5 books to nurse your brain back to health.
For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
As 'Demon Slayer' grips the world with its engaging story and out-of-the-world visuals, one can’t help but wonder about the anime’s tragedy hidden behind its scenic moments and painful farewells
These are books that invite you to pause over a line, to linger in a paragraph, to lose yourself not in spectacle but in rhythm
This is not a book review. At least not in the traditional sense where the reviewer recaps the gist of a book, quoting and analyzing parts, drawing or pointing to conclusions.
By the year 2035, Dhaka forgets the scent of the Gulshan-Banani lake.
In the year 1025, a fleet of warships set sail from the Coromandel Coast of southern India on a mission of conquest.
Some poets arrive like rain on parched soil—needing no defense, only recognition. Al Mahmud (1936–2019) was one of them. And yet, in the usual crookedness of history, we have found ourselves having to defend what should already have been canonised. There was a time—not long ago—when his name uns
Elif Shafak has adroitly balanced the story between Peri’s suffering as a woman and religion’s role in mending our relationships and lives.
Children pulled from rubble in Gaza, dust-white faces against red bricks—
My nani’s nickname was Bokul—like the flower. In English, it’s called the Spanish Cherry or Mimusops elengi, though no translation quite captures its softness.
The bus stop was empty as usual, I sat waiting for a sight of one. Then he came. A man in a faded red shirt with a bag hanging on his back, running as if the devil himself had taken out a lease on his shadow.
The 2025 Booker Prize longlist was revealed on Tuesday, July 29, showcasing a diverse ensemble of literary brilliance, with novels that spanned continents, genres, and narrative styles
Graffiti has long played a powerful role in revolutions around the world. From the walls of Paris in 1968 to the slogans of the Arab Spring, street art has served as one of the most immediate and accessible forms of resistance.
Review of ‘The Last Bench’ (Ekadā, 2025) by Adhir Biswas
For today’s feminists, the focus isn’t just on challenging or breaking social norms, but also on asking, who gets to break these norms? And to what extent?
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches …flaxen against the lights
