Tribute

Remembering Satyendra Nath Bose

SN Bose’s recruitment at DU was by the institution’s first vice-chancellor, PJ Hartog.

POETRY / One who stands alone in the crowd

A lonely soul treads on the street cultivating the sweet pain of defunct love; like a solitary artist, he rambles through the alleys of the city

TRIBUTE / ‘Je Jole Agun Jole’ was first published under the title ‘Kar Ki Noshto Korechilam’

'I dedicated a lion's share of the life I've lived to poetry. I've thought of poetry as a guiding star'

POETRY / The shabby turtle without a shore

Some label you a poet of love so true

TRIBUTE / Story of an ‘Unaccompanied Minor’: A tribute to Matthew Perry

It's almost as if Matthew Perry was destined to write this book.

Matia Chowdhury: When personality surpasses politics

After the completion of one year in prison, she quoted from Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace: "Don't grieve dearie/trouble lasts an hour/but life lasts forever."

Abu Saeed Khan: A Champion of Connectivity

We celebrate a life well lived and mourn the loss of a valued friend and colleague

Tributes pour in for late actor Waliul Haq Rumi

Rumi's journey in acting began in 1988 with the play "Kreetodash". During the same year, he made his debut in the showbiz industry with the television drama "Kon Kanoner Phool", which earned him praise for his performance. Alongside television, he has also acted in several movies. In 2009, he debuted his silver screen with the film "Doriaparer Douloti".

TRIBUTE / James Joyce was never more profound than in 'Dubliners'

The universality of Dubliners is found not just in its structure as a short story collection, but also in the minute details of the way the people inhabit the stories, the city, and the world at large. The way they breathe help the city come to life, and the geography of the city has never been better realised by Joyce than right here

November 1, 2023
November 1, 2023

Remembering Dr. Saleemul Huq, the climate stalwart

Dr. Huq steered a generation of climate researchers and activists, having inspired most of the leading climate activists and actors active currently

September 26, 2023
September 26, 2023

T.S. Eliot and on living in unreal cities

I once again find myself drawn to "The Waste Land"—though this isn’t about just the one poem, not really—where so much of the old world exists in motifs in a tattered landscape.

September 18, 2023
September 18, 2023

The fearless, experimental poetry of Binoy Majumdar

As time passed by and as the poet made an introspection in seclusion, he dug up such verses which to the reader might feel like a revelation of truth.

August 29, 2023
August 29, 2023

Remembering Melville in his bicentenary year

Melville's critics, inevitably, panned him for what he had characterised self-deprecatingly and in his frustration as his fictional "botches," although his works were rarely that.

August 12, 2023
August 12, 2023

The poet who shook the Ershad regime

As he had actively protested against Ayub's dictatorship, and was indeed jailed, he felt compelled to protest against Ershad's dictatorship through his poetry.

August 6, 2023
August 6, 2023

The astounding optimism in Tagore’s songs

His words convince the listener that the world is actually a beautiful place where truth, honesty, and simplicity are the quenching clouds above a desolate desert of dry despair and monotony.

July 31, 2023
July 31, 2023

Of nineteen thirty-four

The motor car is always a thing of darkness, In the sun and lighted roads of day And in the luminous gas at night though 

July 28, 2023
July 28, 2023

Remembering Mahasweta Devi: The blueprint of subaltern activism and literature

While novelists such as Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Sanjeeb Chandra Chattopadhyay adopted an ambiguous position on caste discourse in their writing, Mahasweta Devi's fiction explicitly delineates the Dalits and adivasis as political, social, and psychological beings embroiled in multiple levels of oppression.

July 20, 2023
July 20, 2023

Au Revoir, Milan Kundera

On July 11, 2023, the world said goodbye to Czech-born French novelist, Milan Kundera.

July 1, 2023
July 1, 2023

The man whose commitment to ethics was unbending

3rd death anniversary of Latifur Rahman