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
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
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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
The Death of SUPERMAN
Are you a true Superman fan? If you have not read The Death of Superman, I believe the answer is a NO.
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The Essential Rokeya
In Bangladesh, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 – 1932) is highly regarded as a literary, cultural icon and reformist writer who
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Shiksha
Although most of us know Nurul Islam Nahid as the minister of the Ministry of Education, very few know that he always had a knack
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Manabjameen: Untilled Earth
Set in the troubled last quarter of the twentieth century, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Manabjameen is an expansive saga that charts the
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Yoga for Dummies
This revised edition of Yoga For Dummies provides 25 percent new and revised content, presenting new concepts for the yoga
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In this age of post 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Johnny Depp fans, very few people are unaware of Washington Irving's tale of fear and
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
A convergence of religions through Dharma, not swords. Friendship as an expression of political resistance.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Bucket List: The Kerala Journal
I am up early today. It's a brilliant morning and I can hear the chirping of new birds.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
In search of a creative community
While I'm editing my novel, I find it helpful to read something entirely unrelated. Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, subtitled The Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives (Bloomsbury 2011), tells the story of a group of radical English writers over a period of a dozen years in the early nineteenth century.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Night It Rained
The wind builds up its frenzy.
The clouds rob my sky.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Early Days
The May sun scorches Krishnachuras blaze The mind is moribund.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
First Kadam
You have gifted me rainy day's First Kadam flower, O my beloved I offer you songs of monsoon rain.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
LAUGHING LIKE RAY'S CHILDREN
People my age are one of the last few generations that grew up in Dhaka without twenty-four hour television or the Internet. We would read.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Migrants
They had set sail in hope in dinghies or rickety boats,
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Dejection: A Sonnet
I would love to be proven wrong that day,
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
This week Shahpar Selim does a double take on a childhood favourite, reminding us that while we are ‘LOLing’ at the world around us (or in our computers), we must remember to laugh at ourselves too.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
WANT TO PLAY?
Grace MacBride and the other five partners of her software company, Monkeewrench, have created a new game titled “Serial Killer Detective'' where the good guy always catches the bad guy.
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Decoding Rooppur...
In the opening, the book printed by Madhyama Media and Publications points to the fact that publishers in this country – though slowly but are finally becoming skilled. Hat’s off to the publisher.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Frog By Mo Yan
The pages are full of references to modern Chinese political history and its cultural and social practices.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is both a spiritual treatise and a decisive effort of ancient literature.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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