CREATIVE NONFICTION / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
In 1970s Azimpur, the two Eids and Durga Puja were the punctuation marks of our year—days when stairwells, verandas, and a single playground turned many flats into one home.
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
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / Pias Majid: The poet of the moonlight conference
27 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Nazrul cannot be contained within a singular frame
25 May 2026, 09:00 AM
Culture
Essay / Anti-colonial resistance in Kazi Nazrul Islam’s essays
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Essay / Raja Rammohun Roy: An architect of Asian cosmopolitan modernity
23 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
21 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
Thorns in My Quilt (Rupa Publications India, 2024) unfolds through address rather than disclosure. Written as a series of letters to her father, Mohua Chinappa’s memoir traces memory not as a sequence of events, but as an emotional inheritance shaped by silence, expectation, and the subtle negotiations that govern family life.
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
Anwar Ehtesham unveils his first photo book, ‘Hopes and Dreams’
This collection of 121 compelling photographs captures the hopes, dreams, resilience, and daily lives of Dhaka’s working-class individuals
6 February 2025, 15:30 PM
Murakami and the limits of an artist’s imagination
Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls, its English translation published last November, plunges the reader into a kind of metaphysical vertigo that never reaches a concluding synthesis.
5 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Rediscovering Reading: How ‘Fragments of Riversong’ helped me heal
Harvard killed my love for reading. When my advisor took me out for a celebratory dinner an hour after my doctoral defense in July 2012, I struggled to read the menu.
5 February 2025, 18:00 PM
The melted melody of a surreal life
Tell me, how far you want to descend
Into your own abyss?
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Exit wounds
Tell me
I am not a house without exits.
Leave
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Fixed
The rain began at dusk, its cold fingers tracing the cracked panes of the house like an unwelcome visitor. By midnight, the storm had grown wild, wind howling through the trees, rattling the fragile bones of the dwelling. I stood before the door, my hand trembling on the tarnished brass handle.
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Egg drop soup
The cream colored bowl held the steaming, almost translucent yellow broth with traces of white, garnished by an array of green onions slashed in an angle.
31 January 2025, 18:00 PM
If you like these books, read these
Sometimes, unearthing your next favourite book is only a simple measure of connecting the dots between what you have loved previously and what you might enjoy next.
30 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Unquiet legacies in Salil Tripathi’s ‘The Colonel Who Would Not Repent’
Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read Siddik Salik’s Witness to Surrender (Oxford University Press, 1977).
30 January 2025, 18:00 PM
‘Girls Do Comics’: Illustrating change beyond the panels
The exhibition will run daily from 10 AM to 8 PM till January 30, 2025, at EMK Center
27 January 2025, 16:42 PM
Michael Madhusudan Dutt: A pioneer of modern Bangla literature
January 25, 2025 marks the 201st birth anniversary of Michael Madhushudan Dutt
25 January 2025, 17:02 PM
Tupperware cake
1 and 3/4 cups of sugar, 2 cups of i-love-you
24 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Will you remember me?
When moon fades into dawn and when I pass away with it / Will you think of all that I was?
24 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Accursed
This is an excerpt from Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's short story "Abhishapta", translated by Dipty Rahman
24 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Voices of resistance: Stories of women’s struggles and resilience in South Asia
Our Stories, Our Struggles: Violence and the Lives of Women (Speaking Tiger Books, 2024) is an anthology edited by Mitali Chakravarty and Ratnottama Sengupta.
22 January 2025, 18:00 PM
A novel’s wry exploration of nostalgia, growth, and the baggage we carry
In Good Material, Dolly Alderton uses her sharp humor and keen observations to explore the challenges of adulthood.
22 January 2025, 18:00 PM
‘The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh’s Unexpected Success’: Naomi Hossain’s book finally meets Bangladesh
On January 18, UPL hosted the publication ceremony for Naomi Hossain's 'Aid Lab' (University Press Limited, 2024) at The Bookworm in Shahabuddin Park
22 January 2025, 12:00 PM
Diamanté
I jump from ship to ship, / fly dangling from the claws
of a huge bird in the sky / till my toes scrape mountain-tips.
17 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Reserved winter kiss
Where there's no scent of mother, but only a sweet sense of comfort in the touch I remember the warmth of my mother's lap
17 January 2025, 18:00 PM
The Doppelgänger
It was actually a bit of a relief to sit on the terrace of the Gezira Pension and have a quiet breakfast before plunging back once more into the traffic of Cairo in search of a carriage to the museum.
17 January 2025, 18:00 PM
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