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
EDITOR’S NOTE
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing
7 August 2015, 18:00 PM
The Red Dress
The rain stopped quite a while ago but one felt the remnants of it dropping from the trees and the tall buildings.
7 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Creativity in Silence
I can't sit still, I love to talk, and reading and writing are my favourite activities. So when I first heard about Vipassana – a ten-day silent meditation retreat – I thought it sounded torturous.
7 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Go Set a Watchman
After reading Harper Lee's now famous sequel (or prequel) to Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman, I think the first thing one notices is the mass confusion in Scout, now a 26-year old living in New York and coming back to Maycomb to discover and grapple with the bigotry inherent in the people of her hometown barring none,
2 August 2015, 18:34 PM
Dreams of Dhaka
The most difficult book to review is the one written by one's brother, and especially if he is the elder one. It would be difficult to satisfy him. So, if you find this review 'too sweetened' don't blame me and you may stop reading it right away.
2 August 2015, 18:32 PM
The Time Machine
Any discourse on science fictions will remain broadly unaccomplished if there is no reference to Herbert George Wells or H. G. Wells (1866—1946). He was
2 August 2015, 18:29 PM
Game Of Thrones
It is cold in the North. Lord Stark is dead and Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne. The seven kingdoms rise up in arms as contenders vie for the throne. The Starks
2 August 2015, 18:25 PM
Be Careful What You Wish For
The book begins with a shocker: Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is nearly killed in an automobile accident; his friend Bruno does die. It seems Sebastian was
2 August 2015, 18:22 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
“The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
31 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The MISSING MIRROR
Sitting in the armchair on his fourth floor balcony, the young master awaited his morning tea.
31 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Truth-telling and the right to publish
The career of the British concert pianist James Rhodes has been anything but conventional. He was more or less self-taught until he was 13.
31 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Accelerate (XL R8)
Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter.
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The book under review, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan, received the Man Booker Prize in 2014. The award
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond:An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy
The book's title is eye-catching all right. Gresham's Law Syndrome and Beyond: An Analysis of the Bangladesh Bureaucracy, written
26 July 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
SLR returns after a two-week hiatus, opening the door to Jean de La Fontaine's world of fables and taking a fictitious fleeting glimpse at what lies beyond our voices, our vision.
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Jean de La Fontaine: A Fountain of Fable
Today's children are familiar with the Harry Potter and Twilight series but once upon a time, Little Louis – the six-year-old son of Louis XIV of France was lucky enough to have the first collection of 124 Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine dedicated to him. La Fontaine and Fables are almost synonymous in French literature.
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
What is Whispered
When the people left the room, wisps of their souls hovered around indefinitely, sniffing at corners and wafting around the legs of chairs.
24 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman goes on sale
Copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited novel Go Set a Watchman are now on sale in UK bookshops, where it was released at midnight.
14 July 2015, 05:15 AM
Local Governance in Bangladesh
Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Talukdar - Senior Programme Manager of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, and author of
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
Political Parties in Bangladesh: Challenges of Democratization
Bangladesh abounds in paradoxes. It has confounded many developmental pundits by maintaining a fairly brisk pace of economic growth while continuing
12 July 2015, 18:00 PM
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