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
Ephemeral Love
The news took us all by great surprise. Some of us were shocked, and others were very upset. One friend Mahbub, who
16 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Nazrul's Immortal Works
The resourceful poems and lyrics in this anthology uphold human dignity, religious harmony, truth, beauty, pain and love. His poems
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
A Tribute to Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was one of the most charismatic public figures. She was also probably the most enigmatic and intensely private in her
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Women Empowerment in Bangladesh of the Forest, Tree & Grassroots
The issue of emancipating women raises obvious questions: Is there a final point; indeed, is the starting point similar across countries;
11 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Many of the theatre persons of Bangladesh left the country in 1971 for Calcutta and had an active exposure to the stage productions of the city.
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Allusion
My paradise is regained...
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
IMMORTAL RABINDRANATH
Rabindranath keeps awake by you every day...
9 September 2016, 18:00 PM
The Investigative Report
The dead body of a seemingly unknown young man...
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
PRIMAL KNOWLEDGE
So many years gone by, but oh! wonder, yet to learn...
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Shakespeare found the world a stage. Similar comments could be found in literatures, oral or written, of places across the globe.
2 September 2016, 18:00 PM
Coming of Age in a Dystopia
Once you get into reading-intensive courses in university, it's difficult to read books that don't come assigned with the courses.
31 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Not Your Regular Fiction Genres
If someone asked me what my favourite fiction genre is, I would probably reply with a predictable “fantasy” or “romance”.
31 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Verses of Concealed Agonies
Poets, authors and playwrights have all along expressed different dimensions of feelings through their literary works. Tales that we
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
ON 13 December 2001, the Indian Parliament was attacked by a few heavily armed men. Eleven years later, we still do not know who was
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience
THE idea of Pakistan stands riddled with tensions. Initiated by a small group of select Urdu-speaking Muslims who envisioned a unified
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Essays on an esoteric subject
On 2 August 2006, Selig Harrison, a highly-regarded American journalist, wrote an op-ed piece on Bangladesh in The Washington Post
28 August 2016, 18:00 PM
I DO NOT WISH EXILE ANYMORE
I do not wish exile anymore
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Commitment
In the coming spring I will love you
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
When your word is someone else's bond
Within minutes of Melania Trump finishing her speech at the US Republican Convention, the news was out that she had plagiarised a
26 August 2016, 18:00 PM
Sometimes the sinner, always a saint!
...the book is not just about being the Saint; in fact it's about the life of a man whose entry into adulthood was marked by an adventure which would only be right for someone who would eventually go on to play the slightly unorthodox Simon Templar.
21 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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