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জানালার কাচে আঙুল রেখে / গুনেছি শহরের সব ভিজে যাওয়া আলো
বৃষ্টি, একটি শহরে
জানালার কাচে আঙুল রেখে / গুনেছি শহরের সব ভিজে যাওয়া আলো
Lalsalu: the shrine that ate a village
Seventy-eight years on, Syed Waliullah's slim novel is still the sharpest Bangla book about the business of belief.
The Last Borrower
Every Thursday for forty years, Mr. Kabir borrowed the same book. Then one Thursday, he didn't come.
Reading by candlelight: a load-shedding diary
Notes from a summer when the power kept going out and the books kept us company.
A Golden Age and the domestic war
Tahmima Anam writes 1971 from the kitchen, the garden and the locked bedroom — and it is all the more powerful for it.
On Silence, and the Rooms That Hold It
A short lyric essay about reading rooms, prayer halls and the grandmother who taught me to be quiet.
The new children's corner is open
A reading rug, low shelves and three hundred new picture books — come and see.
Re-reading The Little Prince at forty
A book for children that turns out to be a book about grief.
What gets lost — and found — translating Tagore
A translator on the impossible pleasure of carrying Gitanjali into English.
Khoabnama: dreaming a whole region
Elias's last novel is demanding, digressive and absolutely worth it.
আয় ঘুম, আয় নদী / চরের বালিতে রাখি চাঁদের পা
ঘুমপাড়ানি
আয় ঘুম, আয় নদী / চরের বালিতে রাখি চাঁদের পা