This study investigates how Indian TV serials are affecting Bangladeshi culture through changes in lifestyle, family and intimate relationship, and forms of art and literature. The qualitative research was conducted on 60 respondents from Khulna and Dhaka city of Bangladesh who were selected through purposive sampling method. Findings suggest that Indian TV serials have a significant impact on the day-to-day life of people living in Bangladesh. It influences the lifestyle of people as they spend a considerable time watching these TV serials. Alongside, the indigenous art, literature, language, customs and rituals are being shaped due to heavy dependency on Indian TV serials. Such inclination raises concern for some potential risks including family conflicts, crime, psychological disorder and even suicide.

Jibanananda Das, in his poetry, exhibits a deep-rooted passion for Bengal. His volume Ruposhi Bangla is a manifestation of his powerful feeling for the nation. To him, perhaps, the most attractive thing is the imagery of Bengal's nature. However, in spite of receiving multidimensional criticism on different aspects i.e., adoration for natural beauty, Das's poetry receives critique on nature and nationalism only inadequately. There exists, therefore, the question-whether Das's poetry show any association between the nature and nationalism of Bengal. This paper attempts to delve into this matter by re-visiting his poetry. Our findings would proffer, initially, that there should be no confusion about the type of nationalism, as for Das's poetry. Additionally, we would argue that Bengali nationalism is expressed well through his extreme feeling for Bengal's nature. We have focused particularly on the poetry of Ruposhi Bangla in this study.

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, a whaling story at the surface, wrenches out from its confines the deep-seated dilemma in human–nature relationship. Like all the other characters, Starbuck, the ship’s first mate, has a loosely bound but matter–of–fact association to Moby Dick, the white whale. His attitude towards Moby Dick is one of what he holds as a general outlook towards a whale. Unlike Captain Ahab, he is not obsessed with that particular animal. He commoditizes it, and thereby takes an anthropocentric stance as he sets himself on a mission to hunt down the great beast. The questions, however, remain whether his approach towards the whale(s) is justifiable and whether the counterstrike that he, together with his shipmates, faces in the end of the novel has any connection to such an approach or not. This paper intends to address such issues from the perspective of animal studies.

The lines that create new states and separate people based on their religious, cultural, and political beliefs are real and can reshape the identity they bear. People living in a new territory with a new national identity can only dive into the memory to have a glimpse of the days gone by. There is no way to think that the separating lines are obscure and that people can cross the lines with ease. In The Shadow Lines the narrator’s grandmother, who was born and raised in Dhaka and now is a citizen of India, tries to cross the lines but fails. She has to pay heavily for her attempt. Her traumatic experience and adopted nationalism along with the line of geo-political divide are the direct consequences of the shadow lines drawn ironically. The Shadow Lines, in fact, presents the existence of clearly discernable lines at more than one level. Apart from the political lines (borders) between two nations, there are lines across religion, culture, and ethnicity. No such lines are shadowy rather vivid. Therefore, The Shadow Lines presents multiple layers of bold lines, which are shadowy only apparently. On each side of the lines there exist a different truth and a different reality.