6 Cosy Books to Read Under a Blanket During Winter
Not too hot, not too cold, with denim jackets and cotton blankets, winter in Bangladesh feels like a fairy tale of nostalgia and hot tea. Add an excellent cosy book to that misty and...
Category: Literature
Book Review: These Little Voices by Rifah Tashfia
It is a delightful sight for a Bengali bookworm to see young indie Bengali writers shining their way through with their mesmerising stories to be told. These Little Voices by Rifah Tashfia is a...
6 Books for a Rainy Day: Quick, Gripping Reads
It’s your typical school day in the late 90s or early 2000s. You wake up at 9, thunder and the chattering of rain in your window. You feel somewhat disoriented, thinking, “What time is...
Conquering Your Writing Fears: A Minuscule Guide
Writers are revolutionary. Both in our times and the past, literary figures have considerably imprinted their ascendancy on civilization. It is through their writing that we perceive our elements in a disparate flavour. They...
My Thoughts on Emily Dickinson and Death
I often wonder what Emily Dickinson is doing in her most desired and dearest “House” that fascinated her so much that she had given up all the unfinished tasks and enjoyed the carriage ride...
Poetry and its Flourishing Era within Gen Z
I first fell in love with poetry on a lonely afternoon in my college library. I remember finding an annotated copy of a poetry collection of classical British poets and thinking to myself, “Is...
Evelyn Hugo: A Tale of Admonishing Patriarchy in the ‘60s
If you are a bookworm, you must have read a lot of books growing up with powerful female protagonists whose best possible trait is “not-like-other-girls.” With this dilemma of not being “girly” and avoiding...
Crying in H Mart: Reclaiming Identity through Food
The novel Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner is a first-hand account of what it means to be brought up in the middle of two cultures, while life’s hurdles constantly challenge it. The...
Salute Narayan Debnath, the Trendsetter of Bengali Comics
It is hard to imagine a kid born in a Bengali household between the mid-60s and the early 2000s not to have had either of the iconic duos Nonte-Fonte and Handa-Bhonda or the neighbourhood...
22 Anticipated Book Releases of 2022
As a new year of outstanding books begins, readers like us are already anticipating new releases. The excitement is building for titles that can help us separate the failures we want to bury in...
