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
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
Story of a street vendor
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PM hands Ekushey Padak 2016
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina hands over Ekushey Padak for 2016 to 16 eminent personalities in recognition of their outstanding contributions in their respective fields.
20 February 2016, 07:48 AM
Italian author-philosopher Umberto Eco dies
Italian author Umberto Eco, who became famous for the 1980 international blockbuster The Name of the Rose, died on Friday, Italian media reported. He was 84.
20 February 2016, 03:56 AM
Fleeting Clouds
Where do they go these white puffs of cloud?
19 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Monday Morning Blues
It was on a Monday morning that I was running late for work. To compound my problems, traffic was heavier than usual and only later,
19 February 2016, 18:00 PM
The Broken Heart
Hope this mail finds you still playing to life's songs in perfect beats. However challenging the tunes are, I know that you will bear with
19 February 2016, 18:00 PM
In remembrance of Jibanananda Das
Today is the 118th birth anniversary of poet Jibanananda Das, a legend in Bengali literature. We remember him in this day with the greatest reverence.
17 February 2016, 12:27 PM
Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets
With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
17 February 2016, 05:10 AM
Try It! Superfoods Super Fast
Which fruit can build your resistance to disease? Which vegetable is good for your liver? Eat your way to super health with Try It Superfoods, Super Fast.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
The Good Liar
Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to pull off the final coup of his career.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Tales of dreams, struggles and triumphs
One of the finest reviews of the book is Purnendu Patri, a dedicated soul of entire Bengal. Many of us know that Patri equally contributed to different genres of art and literature. He had a special fascination for cinema and art. Rahman thinks that Patri was deeply influenced by the philosophical thoughts of Manik Bandyopadhyay.
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Of human nature and a dose of the supernatural
"... readers will find that my flair as a storyteller and strength as a writer reside primarily in the imaginative recreation of the borderland between the margins of the known and the preternatural world."
14 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Three Poems
Morning comes upon us, a yawn...
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
ROSIE
Oh Rosie, Rosie my girl
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: LITERARY LIFE IN MYANMAR
Though Wiles is absent from these narratives, their seamless clarity is evidence of her skill as an interviewer and editor. Her introductions are
invaluable in setting these writers in the context of their physical and cultural environment.
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM
SADDEST BOOK EVER?
“All the Bright Places” is Jennifer Niven's first YA novel that came out in January 2015 and is set to be adapted into a movie.
10 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Whose blame is it anyway?
The three-part novel begins in 1965 when Laila is still a teenager who is attracted to her poor Hindu neighbor Santo.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
A pedagogue's authorial feat
The most eye-catching feature of all textual feats by Associate Professor Sarwar Morshed is his amazing dexterity to exercise...
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Tale of humour and pathos ...
The novel has all the hallmarks of Vargas Llosa's unique skills. To connect with the reader with his easy-flowing style; his ability to detail the lives of ordinary people.
7 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Inspiring storytellers to join Daily Star's silver jubilee gala
During 25 years of its journey, The Daily Star has unfolded inspiring stories and taken numerous initiatives to make a difference. In alignment with this spirit, The Daily Star arranged an online campaign marking 25 years of Journalism without fear and favour where online readers were urged to submit their inspiring stories.
3 February 2016, 17:23 PM
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