Writer

Australian art festival apologises for barring Palestinian writer

The writers' week controversy comes as Australia debates curbs on hate speech

Australian writers' festival cancelled after Palestinian author barred

As many as 180 authors have boycotted the event after novelist and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah was disinvited from the festival

Creator of ‘Tin Goyenda’ Rakib Hasan dies

Countless Bangladeshi teenagers have grown up with his detective series

Badruddin Umar, prolific writer and political thinker, dies at 93

He passes away in hospital care after a long struggle with age-related complications

Left-wing intellectual Jatin Sarker dies at 89

Jatin was also the president of the Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi central committee for two terms

Brutality of religious fanatics

In praise of ‘dirty old’ Sardarji