Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre
7 June 2026, 11:26 AM
Entertainment
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
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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
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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
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
A glimpse of Indian society
The very beginning of Aarushi by India based eminent journalist Avirook Sen reminds me of the opening lines of The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing.
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Journalism: Offline Online
The history of journalism in Bangladesh is largely non-academic as people with different educational backgrounds have come up and joined this exciting profession without any career plan.
12 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Dark Destinies, Dark Ships
Thanks to “Literary Encounter,” a programme initiated by Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, in cooperation with The Reading Circle...
12 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Rising to the Surface
Readers of this paper may have seen a “short story” entitled “The Rising of the Dead”, which appeared on April 23, 2016. Presented as a work of fiction...
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Two Poems by Ahsan Habib
At last, I built a home on the ash-stacks of fallen leaves,
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
The Wedding Ring
The Pakistanis were beaten at last. The flag of Bangladesh flew over the independent country. We all returned celebrating victory.
10 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Talking about mundane things
Pother Pore is a book of poems about human love and relationship.
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Celebrating adolescence in enigmatic past
Even people with little idea about the settings of a cadet college would tell you that life inside it is a cautious catwalk on a shuddering ramp.
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
A plea for personal space
Ever since the Ekushey Boimela this year, friends have been posting excerpts from a book, Nimishei Nishiddho Tumi.
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
When river turns red
The book 'River of my Blood' is divided into ten chapters, each named after the months in Bangla. The story starts in the month...
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Introduction
May this afternoon's feeble shadows fall upon all the heady lines of my poetry, or may heaps of dry leaves blaze up in flames beside them
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Of Things
Things are material in the hardest sense of the term. Things have shapes, textures, structures, and even timbres. Things have tones,
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
New In Nagaland
The war that changed India and the world had one of its history-changing battles take place in the sprawling hills of Kohima. Across
3 June 2016, 18:00 PM
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore
When Kafka Tamura runs away from his Tokyo house the day he turns fifteen to escape a strange curse his father set upon him, little does he know his life will end up with so many twists and turns.
1 June 2016, 18:00 PM
The Lost Gods
In The Sleeping Army, Freya went to Hel and back. She fought dragons, fled fire and outwitted giants - all to restore eternal youth to the Norse Gods.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Victimized masses and unsatisfied souls
... neither India nor any other South Asian country should exhibit superfluous eagerness to butter up the western powers all the time. Each state should have its own individual values and principles to determine its policies on development.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
A singular woman's tale
The Firebird is a story told by a woman (who is nameless) about herself and her life in a village in what is now Poshchimbongo in India.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of simple problems of life
Danielle Steel is a popular American novelist and has written 142 books--98 of which are novels—and she has sold more than 800 million copies.
29 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Long To Belong
She walks the walk of her steps
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
NEW IN NAGALAND
Once upon a time, there were head-hunters. Only presence we found in April 2016 were two skulls perched on bamboo shafts on
27 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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