Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre
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The evening opened with ensemble recitations of “Charyapada” and “Banglar Mukh”, creating a bridge between the earliest known examples of Bengali literary expression and contemporary poetic voices. Through carefully choreographed vocal performances, the productions highlighted the evolution of Bengali language and literature across centuries.
Poetry / A woman-shaped exhaustion
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
News
Book Review: Fiction / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
Book Review: Nonfiction / The story of Bangladesh’s books
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative non-fiction
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
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
Cry When Sad, Shout When Mad
Book: Biday Ma (Goodbye Mother), Author: Iqbal Khandaker, Genre: Original Author
2 February 2017, 04:30 AM
Finally - A road trip worth REMEMBERING
Travel stories have become a failsafe story-writing hack in recent times – the second cheesiest plot structure next to the main character suffering from cancer.
1 February 2017, 18:00 PM
A poet always leaves a mark
Poet Syed Ali Imam did not compose any poem in the last 53 years. He had lost everything -- the entire collection of 11 years of poetry writing -- during the liberation war of 1971. Suddenly, the occasion of February 21 in 2015 stimulated him to write again.
1 February 2017, 04:50 AM
Ghost Ship
Kurt Austin, head of the numa special assignments team, is no stranger to danger, either above or below the waves.
29 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Ten Cities that Made an Empire
The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped.
29 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Small book on a large life
"Bathare mor modhur koro'' is a book on Aninda Majumder Bappu, a successful banker, was the eldest son of Dr. Pratima Paul Majumder.
29 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A never ending journey through history
THE first impression I have of this book is that it is simply marvelous in its execution, language and content. Normally we expect travel books to be a chronology of events in the writer's process of travel, but “Right to Passage”is not simply a travel book.
29 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The Henna Tree and its Paste
YOU can get away from Bangladesh, but Bangladesh can never get away from you. That is, if you are a part of the first generation Bangladeshi diaspora, in whatever part of the world you are in, whether as a temporary sojourner or as a permanent resident.
29 January 2017, 18:00 PM
QUIET BY THE NAF
Schools are burnt, houses torched
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A Well-Wisher
An unexpected visitor suddenly entered into my office. I stood up from my chair as soon as I saw him. He was an important political
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The Runaway Stories
‘Runaway' is the latest of Alice Munro's collection of short stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives and
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016 announced
The "Bangla Academy Sahitya Puroshkar 2016" is announced in seven categories ahead of the Ekushey Book Fair.
23 January 2017, 12:38 PM
Migrant workers are just not numbers...
About a year and a half ago, Shahidul Alam told me about how he wanted to do a project on migrant workers going
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The story of an invincible fisherman
The Old Man and the Sea is one of the masterpieces by Ernest Hemingway (1899—1961). Ernest Hemingway is an
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A book of unsolved mysteries
Atrick Modiano, the French language novelist and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature,is an enigmatic
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The unsolved mystery of Elena Ferrante
Elena Ferrante is an Italian novelist in her 70s who has been producing published work for about 25 years. But it was only four years
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Second Language: Acaptor or a liberator?
It was a pleasant morning. The summer sun without its usual needle-sharp rays had brightened the vast airport. Very likely last night's
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
The Dome of Silence
We all are confined,
13 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Meghmallar
Jamunacharya, the renowned philosopher of Takshashila, was grinding away on a complicated version of mimamsha, an orthodox
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM
A courageous martyr
Faraaz is our proven brave heart
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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