‘The Tale of Hansuli Turn’: What Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s novel says about preserving a river

Zakir Kibria

· May 24, 2026 · 01:30 pm

Fiction from Bangladesh: Kamal embarks on a boat journey to the floodplains until the war is over

Manzu Islam

· Aug 14, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: The state drives a poor but brilliant boy to destruction in newly-independent Bangladesh

Shahidul Zahir

· Apr 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Two paintings worth Rs 400 crore are stolen. What secrets do they hide? Will they be found?

Tarun Mehrishi

· Mar 14, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new anthology brings together short stories about the Bengal Partition and its aftermath

Goutam Aalee

· Dec 20, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Magical realism blends with personal history in a new novel about Bangladesh’s quest for freedom

Iffat Nawaz

· Nov 15, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Shahidul Zahir’s fiction represents one of the most unique literary voices of Bangladesh

Shahidul Zahir

· Jan 21, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Bangladesh at 50: This anthology offers a selection of stories written in both English and Bengali

Sohana Manzoor

· Dec 16, 2021 · 05:30 pm

These posthumous stories of Dhaka by the author of ‘Babu Bangladesh!’ remind us of his talent

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 30, 2021 · 08:30 am

These short stories by the author of ‘Babu Bangladesh’ portray many Bangladeshes

Numair Atif Choudhury

· Oct 14, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Babu Bangladesh’: A literary agent remembers the making of a debut novel – and its author’s death

Kanishka Gupta

· Nov 09, 2019 · 08:30 am

A Calcutta nightclub and its singers star in this World War II novel of love under colonialism

Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

· Aug 12, 2019 · 07:30 am

Like its country of origin, ‘Babu Bangladesh’ is a polyphonous enigma, masquerading as a novel

Arnav Das Sharma

· Aug 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

In ‘Babu Bangladesh!’, South Asian literature gets a wildly imaginative novel that defies genres

Numair Atif Choudhury

· Jun 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This novel proves that fiction offers many sides to a story when history provides a single version

Ibtisam Ahmed

· Jan 19, 2019 · 08:30 am

The 1971 Dhaka University massacre forms the backdrop for this novel about life in violent times

Nadeem Zaman

· Oct 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A novel inspired by the deadly 1970 Bhola cyclone criss-crosses five decades of Bangladesh’s history

Arif Anwar

· Jul 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

In this novel, a Bangladeshi woman sets out to find out whether her husband has really been hanged

Anisul Hoque

· Jul 17, 2018 · 08:30 am

Searching for a home in the world: Why Bangladesh's fiction writers are isolated

Sharbari Zohra Ahmed

· May 14, 2016 · 10:00 am