Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre
7 June 2026, 11:26 AM
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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
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Poetry
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
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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
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Books & Literature
The Shelf / Chand raat in Dhaka through the eyes of literary characters
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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’
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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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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
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
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FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
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Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
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Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
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The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
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ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
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My Struggle: Book Two
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STRANGER
It was pretty late in the evening when my colleague Sayeed Mahdi and I came out of Lahore Gymkhana.
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Love
The far more great is One's sense of love It endows hue to nature The green grass looks greener.....
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TWO POEMS
Manic, I run through the woods
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Finding home halfway across the world
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Story of University of Dhaka
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A living celebration of Shakespeare's sonnets
Four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare's works still seem inexhaustible as a source of pleasure and a spur to creative
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A Little Wind
My fists open like leaves
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Here Was a Door
Here was a door, above which hung the cherished beauty
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YOUR LONELY WALKS
Don't hold my hand
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A Stalwart in Politics and Literature
ABUL Mansur Ahmed was born in Mymensingh in the year 1898. Primarily known as a Bangladeshi litterateur, he was also a politician
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Expectations to climb social ladder
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An Advisable Handbook for Boosting Research Skills
GOBESHONAY Hatekhori (Introduction to Research Methods)
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Insane
Your nails are long...
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Dreams
I clawed at my throat; my nails digging into my skin. The pressure of my nails was good enough to leave some crescent shaped bruises.
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Tagore and Keats
John Keats (1795-1821) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), two great idealists...
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM
One Little Ghost, Too Many Adventures
Vuter Naam Ramakanto Kamar is a graphic children's novel first published at Ekushay Boi Mela 2016 by Mahbubul Haque of Ikrimikri Publication.
24 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Five things to know about Harper Lee
Enrich yourself with five exciting facts about Nelle Harper Lee, the author who defined true grit, and moved readers with her persuasive style of storytelling.
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The ruler every nation desires to have
The prince', written by Italian political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is one of the leading works of modern political philosophy.
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Edge of Eternity: Fiction and Geopolitics Integrated
Ken Follett, an eminent Welsh author of our time, has a superb knack for blending political events with the personal lives of people through his fictional works.
21 February 2016, 18:00 PM
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