CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our eids and puja in Azimpur
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In 1970s Azimpur, the two Eids and Durga Puja were the punctuation marks of our year—days when stairwells, verandas, and a single playground turned many flats into one home.
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
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Books & Literature
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The flavours of Eid and the memory of home
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Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
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Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
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Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
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News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
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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.
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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
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Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
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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
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
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Muri-Makha -Pherey-Asha
Conversations end with half nibbled canapés,
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Seeking a Story
Nineteen ninety-nine. Dhaka, Bangladesh. My college is over and I am having the pre-kingly hours of my life—waiting for results before applying to a university.
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
The Story of Sounds
Life is an art, the art that has the magnificent capacity to preserve itself. The challenge is to discover the beauty of that how of those
30 November 2018, 18:00 PM
WORDS THAT HEAL: The comfort of literature in times of mental duress
For Mahera help came not only in the form of relatable characters, but also the physical comfort derived from holding onto a book. "I've carried a book or a Kindle with me during the worst times of my life. It's like a security blanket," she told me.
29 November 2018, 18:00 PM
5 lesser known classic novels by women
Literary classics are described as works of art that evoke certain emotions and brings forth extremely important themes through the authors' brilliantly deduced philosophy on life and human behaviour.
28 November 2018, 18:00 PM
The Night Falls
The heart hurts when it does
23 November 2018, 18:00 PM
The “Things in Heaven and Earth”:
“The girl who, somehow strangely resembles Ranu, raised her eyes -a slight smirk hanging in the corner of her lips” – thus ended Devi (1985), closely followed by the second of the Misir Ali sequence, Nishithini in 1986.
23 November 2018, 18:00 PM
The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2018: Shortlist Announced
In an article early this month we presented the story in brief behind the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the longlist of 2018. The story has indeed progressed further since then.
23 November 2018, 18:00 PM
The Haven Searchers
I often see death hovering above everything, sticking out its tentacles, and taking someone in its mouth on a whim. Its belly is swollen with the lives it has consumed and its mouth drips with the sorrows of those. It is an invisible (to the mortals) aerial creature. It flies fast despite being so heavy. It is omnipresent, and in the ocean, it is as visible as a boat shaped moon on a mirror-like pond.
23 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Toy-cart
I was just up from bed; even the sun was not quite high yet. Some shalik birds were quarreling on top of the trees near the backyard gate and I was wondering how to ask mother for the plantain chops that were kept in the shika from last night's dinner.
23 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Mohammed Hanif and the voices in his head
The Guardian's review of Mohammed Hanif's Red Birds points out how Momo, one of its characters, “complicates our picture of helpless children in refugee camps.”
22 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Out of Grace
I don't have it in me
I'm a fire that can't ignite
I'm a torch that doesn't ignite the light
16 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Two poems by Shaira Afrida Oyshee
I grew up with pickle jars
16 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Land of the Thunder Dragon
At the end of the waterfall of dying lights from the celestial fireball,
16 November 2018, 18:00 PM
When Olga Grjasnowa Comes to Dhaka
I met Olga Grjasnowa early this November when she came to a program at ULAB jointly hosted by the University and the Goethe Institute Bangladesh. She had a couple of sessions at the Dhaka Literary Festival too.
16 November 2018, 18:00 PM
A Teacher, A Torchbearer
Each time on the eve of a new semester, it is not absolutely uncommon for any university student to feel overwhelmed for many reasons. Faces of the teachers from the bygone
16 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore and China: A Cambridge Perspective
Unnoticed I am going away/ Just as nobody saw me come./I clasp my hands and bow my head/As clouds puff up in the west…
16 November 2018, 18:00 PM
A Girl
“A girl,” the nurse had said and the mother had frowned. “A girl,” she turned those words over in her head, mumbled them slowly. “A girl,” she said to the nurse, “I hope the world would be fair to her.” The nurse looked motionless as if she heard those words coming out of every mother's mouth.
9 November 2018, 18:00 PM
Henpecked
The harmonium is massive in size. Antique and made of German reeds. Though time's whiplash left dark marks on it, its exquisite face still attracts its viewers.
9 November 2018, 18:00 PM
THE OVER TAKERS: STORIES TO MULL OVER
I was scratching my head as I completed reading the first story in Wasi Ahmed's anthology of short stories entitled The Over Takers. I was scratching my head when I had finished the eleventh tale, also the last in the engrossing volume.
9 November 2018, 18:00 PM
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