‘There is a ban even on breathing’: Leftist poet Birendra Chattopadhyay on the horrors of war

Birendra Chattopadhyay Sayandeb Chowdhury

· Nov 09, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘I write life on paper’: Taslima Nasrin’s poetry has been translated into English for the first time

Taslima Nasrin Jesse Waters

· Sep 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Arise out of the lock’: 50 Bangladeshi women poets from several generations in translation

Sadaf Saaz Nabina Das, Sufia Kamal, Anjana Saha, Leesa Gazi, Shanta Maria, Asma Beethe

· Aug 28, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How Kabir Suman’s album of urban ballads, ‘Tomake Chai’, caused a ‘culture-quake’ in Bengali music

Sayandeb Chowdhury Rajendran Narayanan

· Jan 15, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

Shankha Ghosh

· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Feb 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Al Mahmud (1936-2019): Bangladesh’s controversial poet will be remembered as one of the greats

Rifat Munim

· Mar 03, 2019 · 10:30 am

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus

Binayak Bandyopadhyay

· Jan 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Why no one has stopped reading the poet Shakti Chattopadhyay

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Mar 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘Kaikeyi to Dasharath’: How Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s radical poetry reworked the narrative

Michael Madhusudan Dutt Ahona Panda

· Mar 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

A salute to you, Shaheed Quaderi (1942-2016), the quintessential poet of Dhaka

Rifat Munim

· Sep 11, 2016 · 07:30 am