BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
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At a pivotal historical crossroads, the evocative novel Chaashabhushar Sontan has stirred a profound reflection within the socio-economic and cultural landscape of Bangladesh.
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The story of Bangladesh’s books
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Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The flavours of Eid and the memory of home
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
The Shelf / Chand raat in Dhaka through the eyes of literary characters
27 May 2026, 23:33 PM
The Shelf
THE SHELF / The knife is always ready 5 books for the season of sacrifice
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Pias Majid: The poet of the moonlight conference
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Nazrul cannot be contained within a singular frame
25 May 2026, 09:00 AM
Culture
Essay / Anti-colonial resistance in Kazi Nazrul Islam’s essays
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
Two Palestinian writers, Omar Hamad and Ibrahim Massri, have been working since late 2025 to build a library in Gaza during the ongoing genocide. The Phoenix Library is located in the heart of Gaza City and, per a post from the library’s Twitter/X account, is fast approaching its official opening date despite the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine still being subject to Israeli apartheid violence.
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin, 2025) continues to solidify its place in the zeitgeist and its cultural impact well into 2026, with its recent win at this year’s US National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in the Autobiography category.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
The Blighted Garden
I took my leave from the Siraj family, thanking them for their hospitality. I was just a stranger and yet they let me stay with them for weeks.
17 December 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Rokte Aka Bhor’: Anisul Hoque’s epic novel commemorates 50 years of liberation
Anisul Hoque’s most recent novel, Rokte Aka Bhor (Prothoma Prokashon, 2021), is a work of historical and political fiction that was released on the occasion of 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence. Against a vast canvas,
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Nonfiction books on the Liberation War released this year
An Internal Matter narrates the story of American activists who supported Bangladesh’s campaign for independence.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
HEFTY AT FIFTY: ‘When the Mango Tree Blossomed’ and other short stories from Bangladesh
The centenary of the Father of the Nation, and following on its heels the golden jubilee of the country’s independence, have precipitated a tireless round of celebratory events and an avalanche of varied publications.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Lucy Foley’s ‘The Guest List’: Murder and intrigue at a secret celebrity wedding
The Guest List is a classic who-dun-it murder mystery, reminiscent of Dame Agatha Christie’s stories. Lucy Foley’s second novel takes us to a lavish celebrity wedding on a remote island off-coast of Ireland.
15 December 2021, 10:36 AM
Pashe Achi Initiative distributes books in exchange for plastic waste
In the latest initiative of Gronthomongol, a project aimed at rescuing the Nilkhet book market from the economic blows brought by the pandemic, youth organisation Pashe Achi Initiative are distributing books among readers in exchange for plastic waste.
11 December 2021, 08:32 AM
Jogabal NA Psychic Force? The Fortunes of Mesmerism in Colonial Bengal
The antepenultimate chapter of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s novel Chandrashekhar (1875) is titled “Jogabal Na Psychic Force?” (Yogic Power or Psychic Force?).
10 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Disembodied
My body carved from abandoned bricks of a ruined temple,
10 December 2021, 18:00 PM
National award winner Kajol Ibrahim launches her memoir
In an intimate ceremony held at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on December 4, national award-winning dancer, choreographer, and stage performer Kajol Ibrahim launched her memoir, Nritte Gantha Kotha Mala, published by Ramon Publishers.
8 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Neutrality is an illusion in Katie Kitamura’s ‘Intimacies’
Katie Kitamura’s latest novel, Intimacies (Riverhead Books, 2021), is a stunning follow-up to its critically acclaimed predecessor, A Separation (2017).
8 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The comfort of books amidst wedding lights
It is December again and as evenings set in, Dhaka becomes brighter than it has been in the past few months.
8 December 2021, 18:00 PM
TWO POEMS
said wounds
heal with time.
3 December 2021, 18:00 PM
A TERRESTRIAL OMNIBUS: When the Mango Tree Blossomed
When the Mango Tree Blossomed is a voluminous compilation of, as the book’s subtitle proclaims, fifty short stories from Bangladesh, edited by Niaz Zaman.
3 December 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Potrika Porbo’ magazine fair underway at Bengal Boi
Bengal Boi is hosting a magazine fair, ‘Potrika Porbo’, at their premises in Dhanmondi until Saturday, December 4.
2 December 2021, 13:55 PM
Dark Academia: Why we love it and what needs to change
Dusty libraries, tweed blazers, candles, classics, coffee pots and armchairs: these are some of the basic elements of a social media aesthetic when one is into Dark Academia.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
In 'Thug', Mike Dash myth-busts British India’s cult of stranglers
It is nearly impossible to know nothing about British India’s infamous cult that systematically killed and robbed Indian travelers for hundreds of years. However, almost every write-up available today is an exaggerated horror story that fails to reflect upon the real events.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Manoranjan Byapari's 'Imaan': Between the familiar and the alien
Through Imaan's interactions with the world outside of the central jail in Kolkata, we meet rickshaw pullers, street hawkers, and tea-stall owners, who belong mostly to the lowest strata of the society and come from highly marginalised caste and economic backgrounds.
1 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation hosts discussion on freedom fighters of Dhaka
On November 27, Saturday at 7 PM, Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation hosted its fifth episode of their discussion series,‘Bidyapeeth Baithaki: Antaranga Alape Gunizan, online’. The topic of this week’s episode was ‘Crack Platoon: The Freedom Fighters of Dhaka’.
30 November 2021, 06:52 AM
Embroidery
Pink cherry blossoms,
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Silence, a Cross-dresser from Medieval Europe
I came across Heldris de Cornuälle’s Silence in 2011, a hundred years after its discovery in 1911. Dated to the early
26 November 2021, 18:00 PM
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