WORLD REFUGEE DAY / To flee, to remember
19 June 2025
Every year, on June 20, World Refugee Day calls on us to remember and hold in our hearts the millions displaced by conflict, persecution, and political upheaval around the world.
19 June 2025
FICTION / The thief
25 April 2025
Farid Shaheb earned a fair bit at the office today. These days, because of the Anti Corruption Commission and newspaper journalists’ incessant pestering, he can no longer directly take the money offered to him.
25 April 2025
16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM / Of homes and the worlds: Women, violence, and the domestic space
27 November 2024
November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence which goes until December 10, Human Rights Day.
27 November 2024
REFLECTIONS / On travel and writing
20 September 2024
It is perhaps not an overstatement to say that humans are, at their core, wanderers.
20 September 2024
THE SHELF / 6 books that shed light on student movements in Bangladesh
24 July 2024
One of the movements which helped accelerate the Liberation War of Bangladesh was the Mass Uprising of 1969.
24 July 2024
The Story of Sharifa: One step forward, many steps backward?
12 July 2024
“The Story of Sharifa” is just one instance in a dishearteningly long line of such measures
12 July 2024
ESSAY / It has to be print
29 May 2024
There is something in the tactility of books that even non-readers find themselves admiring, and readers more so.
29 May 2024
Poetry / Tongue
23 February 2024
I heard myself speak today
It made me want to
Cut out my tongue.
23 February 2024
A Solo Exhibition
Never in his wildest imaginations had Aniket thought that everything would come together so well. Nearly everyone he invited had come.
26 January 2024
The Hermitage Residency: In Conversation with Arif Anwar and Julia Philips
Last week, Daily Star Books interviewed Bangladeshi-Canadian writer Arif Anwar, author of The Storm (2018), and American novelist Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth (2019).
14 November 2023
Of lost recipes and forgotten flavours
I have always had a rather avoidant recoil to the aftermath of death.
6 September 2023
Naeem Mohaiemen discusses ‘Midnight’s Third Child’ at ULAB and Bengal Institute
Naeem Mohaiemen called the book and its selections, which comprise fairly short essays and editorials on contemporary matters, “an argument for somehow recording all that seems ephemeral, so we can then look back and trace what was happening.”
26 May 2023
A new digital font brings back the letterpress typeface of old Bangla books
The font can be installed on and used with Kindle without breaking juktakkhor apart.
21 May 2023
Bigolas Dickolas and the power of a heartfelt ‘Read this NOW’
One random tweet by a fan account has sent a 2019 book flying off the shelves, climbing bestseller charts.
16 May 2023
What to make of the diversity in the International Booker shortlist
Several threads of commonality tie the books together just as their origins showcase their differences.
10 May 2023
Dilemma
Pushing the glass door open, Anita heaves a sigh of relief as she leaves the office for lunch. The sun is blazing down outside. Sometimes this place feels like a gold cage.
28 January 2022