NEWS REPORT / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
News
Satrapi offered a deeply personal account of life under Iran’s Islamic regime while creating a story that resonated with readers worldwide
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The story of Bangladesh’s books
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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
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
Touring the Land of the Lake Poets
The picturesque mountainous area in the north-west part of England, commonly known as the Lake District, is a top favorite tourist
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Freedom Fighter
Ever-undaunted, I am heading forward, ignoring all obstacles,
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Ek Kishorir Juddhajatra : A Painful Tale Told Spontaneously
It’s the tale of a teenage girl’s reminiscence of her journey from home country to a neighbouring country to take refuge during the devastating war of liberation in the year 1971, told by herself at the age of sixty.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
BANGABANDHU AND BANGLADESH: Correcting Contrives and Cunning Corridors
Lamartine — that mediocre poet but cunning politician in France during the revolutions of 1848 — once remarked that history is a trick that we, the living, play upon the dead.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Melancholy Medicine
60 mg of Prozac
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Sodium: (Na)mesake
Have you seen my City?
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Cricket and Visions
On March 18th, a poet named John was hit in the eye and knocked out by a ball while playing an informal game of cricket. Perhaps
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Not Like This
The wise their moments spare will spend
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Independence, how this word became ours
With the excitement of waiting for a poem to be composed
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Charon’s Obol
“Mukti?” The word was a tremor of butterfly wings.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Hits a Century
Thanks to Google I have, at a click of the mouse, discovered that in our time around 165 members of the literary professions have
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The 1971 we don’t talk about
According to estimations, around 200,000-400,000 women were tortured and raped by the Pakistani Military and their collaborators
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Olden Times of 2019
Cowsar sat there, looking outside his garden at the Red Planet's artificial-earthen beauty. The red earth looked surprisingly pretty in the blinding light of the sun.
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Dreams & Shadows: Perspectives on Multifarious Issues
“When white people commit acts of terrorism, we term them mentally ill. When governments commit acts of war and terrorism, we call it Foreign Policy. When a Muslim commits an act of terror, we call it terrorism.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
A Writer's Enigma
I cannot write. For a month, it lingers. Every morning, I sit in front of my laptop and hope to write something new, something noble. But nothing comes out. Not a word, not a sentence. As if the sea of creativity has dried up.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Chawk Bazar, 2019
The fire of Muspelheim rages
In the dark alleys where for ages
Ancient arts of beauty have been stockpiled
By the masters of money and mind.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Name of the Beloved
Tell me, Bell,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
From Gitabitan
What made you leave hesitatingly at twilight?
What made you falter at the threshold and look back?
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
From Tungipara
Sitting beside the secluded sepulcher
Praying for the salvation of your soul,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Victory I Have Seen
If you ask me exactly when and how the Mujibnagar govt.-in-exile was first assembled, I cannot give you the answer right away, mostly because too many possible answers are floating in the air as I speak.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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