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
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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
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Non-fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
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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
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Books & Literature
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
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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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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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Haruki Murakami's “After Dark”
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Strange motivations
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FREE WRITING
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Buddhism in Bangladesh since 2nd century BCE
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Spotlight on an essence of Bangladesh's culture
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Finish the Book and Die
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THE SECOND WIFE
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30 October 2015, 18:00 PM
The genius making sense with his 'nonsense'
In remembrance of Sukumar Ray, the great Bangalee poet, story writer and playwright Bangla literature will forever be indebted to.
30 October 2015, 15:50 PM
Learning To Live and Laugh
When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.
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A tale of slavery on Caribbean islands
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A historical fiction on the liberation war of Bangladesh
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Memoirs of a nonconformist
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25 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Two Songs
I pray not for you to guard me in danger time and again
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SLEEP
Whatever bravado I might show to the world, only I know how greedy I am for a night's – even a single night's – sleep. I have read an encyclopaedic amount of literature about insomnia, I have heard lullabies in thirteen different languages, I have tried lavender aromatherapy and temple massage techniques.
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Tales of Tagore in Latin America
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Love story packed with passion and vengeance
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Elegant, graceful, and heart-warming stories
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The Power of a Poet
Only poets can heroically sacrifice the golden throne
16 October 2015, 18:00 PM
SLEEP
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Rejected Bestsellers on the Rebound
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