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
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
Tête–à–tête
and where will you be when I feel pain?
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Banalata Sen
Thousands of years, I've been knocking around the world's ways
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Sarbojaya and Surabala
Written words last forever. Women and children in masterly works of fiction are endearing characters. The endearment lasts a lifetime.
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Stories for the Summer
It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.
27 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Words and phrases you won’t believe Shakespeare invented
The English language wouldn’t be the same without Shakespeare. He is credited with inventing over 1700 common words and phrases we still use today
23 April 2016, 15:31 PM
We Are At Odds
Time changes
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
NIGHTMARE
When did these dead people awake from their graves?
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Rising of the Dead
I stepped inside the house through the drawing room doors. The smell of death assailed my senses. The smell was stale – all pervasive.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Wisdom of a Revivalist
Sri Chaitanya Deb (1486-1533) was an interesting and charismatic personality of the 16th century in Bengal, Assam, Orissa and across the eastern India.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Tribute to a scholar
They remember him as a loving husband and as an inspiring father. Other articles are written by his relatives, colleagues, students and friends in great admiration. In their portrayal, Prof. Rehman is illustrated as an exceptionally gentle, compassionate, amiable and vastly knowledgeable person.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of Quarter Century of Development
When Azizur Rahman Khan writes something on the economy of Bangladesh, one needs to take note.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Poet Syed Shamsul Haq flown to London for treatment
Eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq is flown to UK for treatment as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.
16 April 2016, 12:49 PM
The Tale of a Slave
It often happens nowadays
That I do not find my head
Spine, is now a distant memory!
A question crops up constantly, at birth
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
By the end of July 1907, news reaches Atiya through a student named Parmeshwar Lal that Iqbal's patriotic songs published in Makhzan have become so popular that they are being sung in the whole of northern India: 'houses, streets, alleys resounded with Iqbal's national songs, which created a feeling of nationalism unknown in India before.'
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
I Need to Believe
In the name of justice...
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Still struggling after 1971…..
MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind
This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Lighter Side of History
I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Driftwood
Her body lies like
Driftwood on the sand
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Bereavement
Things were not so rosy at first,
But soon they were straightened out.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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