Sakib Al Hasan Rajshahi, Dec 20 – A Two-Day long International Conference on ‘Literature, History, Culture’ organized by Arts Faculty of University of Rajshahi begins on Friday.
Tag: Literature
Those who came to conquer it
Sudhirendar Sharma Imagining geographical spaces through religion limits our understanding by imposing and justifying an ideology at the cost of ignoring its inherent richness.
Amitabha Bagchi wins DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Dhaka, Dec 16 – Amitabha Bagchi’s novel ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ has won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019.
Nobel literature winner dreams of a new narrative style
Stockholm, Dec 8, AP/UNB – Nobel Literature Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk says she thinks a new sort of fiction may be needed to counteract the modern era’s tendency to isolate and divide people.
পাঠ্যসূচীতে ইকবালের রচনা অর্ন্তভূক্ত করে জ্ঞানের সন্ধান দিন
আজ বেলা তিনটায় জাতীয় প্রেস ক্লাবের মাওলানা আকরম খাঁ মিলনায়তনে দার্শনিক, রাজনীতিক ও মরমী কবি ড. আল্লামা ইকবালের ১৪২তম জন্মবার্ষিকীতে আল্লামা ইকবাল স্মৃতি সংসদের উদ্যোগে সংগঠন সভাপতি খান আসাদের সভাপতিত্বে এক আলোচনা সভা অনুষ্ঠিত হয়।
Riverscapes of a Lonely Poet: Jibanananda Das
November 10, 2019 SANDRP Again I shall return to the Dhansiri’s banks, to this Bengal, Not as a man, perhaps, but as a shalik bird, or a wh ite hawk. As, perhaps, a crow of dawn in this land of…
Preema Donna – An Infinite Journey unveiled at Dhaka Lit Fest
‘Preema Donna – An Infinite Journey’, a book by prominent Bangladeshi visual artist Nazia Andaleeb Preema, was unveiled at the Dhaka Lit Fest on Friday.
Dhaka Lit Fest 9th edition attracts readers from near & far
Dhaka Nov 08 – Fast emerging as a counterpart to February’s Amar Ekushey Book Fair, the Dhaka Literature Festival draws book lovers in the latter part of the year, with its notably more international participation.
Book on National Professor Abdur Razzaq published
Dhaka, Nov 3 – Prof Abdur Razzaq was a visionary who had an impressive brain and mind ahead of his time but he used to live as a common man, speakers said at a book launching ceremony on Saturday.
Nudge is what push is not
In recent years, several countries have been drawn to nudges to makes progress on pressing social problems as these do not cost a great deal.
Not really convenient, and yet
Sudhirendar Sharma Trains are rolling libraries of information provided one is willing to relinquish home comforts; is ready for the unexpected; and is alive to searching the unknown.
PM receives 2 Russian translated books on Bangabandhu
Dhaka, Oct 20 (UNB) – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday received two books on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman translated into Russian language by a Russian professor.
Library exhibit offers glimpse into Salinger’s life and work
New York, Oct 17 (AP/UNB) — As he worked on early drafts of “The Catcher in the Rye,” a novel which proved both scandalous and life-changing, J.D. Salinger considered adding his generation’s idea of a trigger alert.
PM Hasina unveils book on her question hour in 9th Parliament
Dhaka, Oct 17 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday unveiled the cover of an 11-volume compilation of book titled “Ninth Jatiya Sangsad: Prime Minister’s Question-Answer” at her office here.
Harold Bloom, author of ‘Anxiety of Influence,’ dies at 89
New York (AP/UNB) — Harold Bloom, the eminent critic and Yale professor whose seminal “The Anxiety of Influence” and melancholy regard for literature’s old masters made him a popular author and standard-bearer of Western civilization amid modern trends, died Monday…
It’s a tie: Atwood and Evaristo share fiction’s Booker Prize
London, OCT 15 (AP/UNB) — Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo split the Booker Prize on Monday, after the judging panel ripped up the rulebook and refused to name one winner for the prestigious fiction trophy.
Nobel author Tokarczuk’s hometown gives free rides for books
Warsaw, Oct 12 (AP/UNB) — A Polish city is offering free public transport rides to bookworms — provided they’re carrying works by the country’s new Nobel literature prize laureate.
Book marking Bangabandhu’s birth Centenary published
The life and works of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were eulogized at the publication ceremony of a book on his birth centenary on Friday.
Trees are from Eden
Sudhirendar Sharma Liberalisation of morality notwithstanding, the heroism of surrender and sacrifice is unlikely to fade anytime soon.
2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault lines
Stockholm, OC T 11 (AP/UNB) — Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe’s social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country’s conservative government and an Austrian accused by many…
Olga Tokarczuk, Peter Handke win Nobel literature prizes
Stockholm, Oct 10 (AP/UNB) — Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for literature on Thursday, a rare double announcement that came after no prize was announced last year due to…
2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal
Two Nobel Prizes in literature — one for 2019 and one for last year — will be announced Thursday after the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that had rocked the Swedish Academy.
Gucci launches diversity US scholarship program
Milan OCT 8. (AP/UNB) — Italian fashion house Gucci has launched a $1.5 million U.S. university scholarship program that is aimed at students who are “traditionally underrepresented” in the fashion industry.
The surrender of intelligence
Sudhirendar Sharma While there is no denying that algorithms have eased life by managing the information explosion, that it does so at the cost of reducing rich diversity into a world of niches has often gone unnoticed? Google does what…
Literature, cultural competition held at MIST
Entertainment Desk The Inter-university Literature and Cultural Competition ‘AUNKUR 2019’ was held for the third time at the premises of Military Institute of Science and Technology(MIST) to enrich Bengali literature and culture yesterday.
It’s time to clear the air
Sudhirendar Sharma Over years, an ecosystem of ignorance and denial has transformed air pollution from a meek cat into an assertive tiger.
‘Peace Be Upon You, Davos’
17 poets and 55 poems, these are the numbers of this verse, in short, strongly desired by the Malaysian poet Rokiah Hashim. The title already contains the ultimate essence: peace and harmony as languages proper to poetry, as an open…
Beginnings without end
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma Early through the novel one learns a rather strange practice of women giving birth while ‘standing like a mare’, priding themselves that nobody other than the midwives witness the child birth.
Does it represent we, the people?
Dr Sudhirendar Sharma Whether the apex court which upholds constitutional obligations of the state has transformed to become the ‘Supreme Court of Indians’ is still open to interpretation.
বঙ্গবন্ধু স্মরণে খেলাঘরের সাহিত্য বাসর অনুষ্ঠিত
১৭ আগষ্ট ২০১৯ – জাতীয় শোক দিবস উপলক্ষ্যে জাতির জনক বঙ্গবন্ধু শেষ মুজিবুর রহমান স্মরণে খেলাঘরের বিশেষ সাহিত্য বাসর অনুষ্ঠিত হয়েছে। ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের আরসি মজুমদার সেমিনার হলে ১৭ আগষ্ট, শনিবার বিকাল ৪টায় শিশুদের পরিবেশনার মধ্য দিয়ে অনুষ্ঠানের যাত্রা শুরু হয়।…