Fiction / The winter ballot
19 September 2026
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Fiction
“I’m sorry, but choosing anywhere near the capital will delay your citizenship process by at least five years,” said the woman at the counter of the immigration office. “The capital itself will cost you a lifetime.”
Poetry / Four poems on healing
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Sacred sorrows
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Essay / How Tumblr folk tales are rewriting digital dread into quiet sanctuaries
17 September 2026
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Essay
Essay / The menstruating body and the making of ‘womanhood’ in literature
17 September 2026
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Essay
Book Review: Fiction / Finding stillness in ‘Being Water’
17 September 2026
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Books & Literature
Essay / ‘The Odyssey’ and what we lose when myth belongs only to its heroes
15 September 2026
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Essay
News Report / BRAC Institute of Languages and The Daily Star redefine English Education for youth
13 September 2026
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News
Book review: Fiction / Finding home, identity, and art in ‘Parsa’s Pithas’
11 September 2026
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Reviews
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
“Ladyland is not perfect,” remarks Sultana, one of the protagonists in the much awaited play, “Project Ladyland 2026”. Produced by HerStory Foundation in collaboration with the British Council and Women of the World Foundation, the play was greeted by a full house this weekend. Staged at the Bangladesh Mohila Samiti theatre, the performance made a splash on Friday, August 14.
Event Report / Kobitabela: a soulful afternoon
9 September 2026
Event Report / “Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
15 July 2026
A unique and heartwarming workshop, designed to celebrate the beautiful journey of parenthood through creative expression and quality time
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026
On June 19, 2026, the occasion was the 20th staging of “Love Letters”, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, translated and adapted into Bangla by writer and translator Professor Abdus Selim. Directed by veteran theatre actor and director Tropa Majumdar and staged by Group Theatre at the Dr. Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium, the production brought together the acting power couple, Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar. Their performances transformed what could have easily been a simple reading of letters into something deeply intimate and profoundly human.
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
The human texture of July
History rarely remembers how revolutionary times actually feel. It remembers slogans but forgets the trembling hands that first held the placards.
21 May 2026
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?
21 May 2026
Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
The bilingual poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved, (Oitijjhya, 2026) by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud was launched on Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event was organised by Oitijjhya Publications and moderated by Mostafa Mushfiq.
19 May 2026
A bilingual ode to the hills: On the launch of Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved
Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved (Oitijjhya, 2026), a bilingual poetry collection by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud, is set to be launched today, Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event is organised by Oitijjhya Publications and begins at 4:00 PM.
18 May 2026
Bilet pherta
The only problem in our ‘Shahebiana.’
Is our complexion, that’s not ‘White.’
Still, we don’t stop trying; use ‘Vinolea,’
Powdering our skin in layers, with might.
We are back from the West: a few,
We destroy the Congress in a chew.
Although our Shahebs are our God,
We make them angry on a nod.
Whereas, we walk like the Shahebs.
And give speeches in perfect English;
But in the time of crisis: steadily we run,
Like every other Bengali son.
17 May 2026
Amazon to end store access for legacy Kindle devices on May 20
Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012, cutting affected e-readers and tablets off from the Kindle Store and limiting their ability to access new content after May 20, 2026.
17 May 2026
Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
Bengal Shilpalay in Dhanmondi, Dhaka hosted a two-day literary event on May 15 and 16, consisting of a memorial lecture and a discussion session organised by Bengal Foundation and Kali O Kalam. The event, organised with the participation of prominent researchers, writers, and artists of the country—brought up literature, culture, social thought, and various contemporary issues.
17 May 2026
A taxonomy of opinions
And the crocodile cuts through the burbling rapid,
mossy snout blinking with sun.
16 May 2026
City of postcards
The plane begins its descent
past the customary carpeting of sepia clouds,
16 May 2026
Diverse articulations in Jibanananda, Rilke, Eliot, and Neruda
At the beginning of “A Day Eight Years Ago” (originally published in 1954) by Jibananda Das, we learn that a man has been taken to the morgue.
16 May 2026
What we’re reading this week
Published during the 2026 Ekushey Book Fair, Daaknam Bhule Gechi follows a city-bred teenager whose life changes when he moves with his family to a deserted palace in his father’s village.
14 May 2026
Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
14 May 2026
A book on education, and a rare moment of hope
A few months ago, while waiting for my matter to be called in court, I watched a young lawyer rise to make a submission.
14 May 2026
Iconic publisher Sheba Prokashoni suspends operations
Management says irregularities and misconduct were recently detected
13 May 2026
Motherhood, unfiltered: 6 books for a more honest Mother’s Day
Ultimately, these authors reject the fantasy of the flawless matriarch, proving that devotion and ambivalence are often delivered from the exact same source. This Mother’s Day, let us celebrate the mothers who nurtured us, mourn the ones we’ve lost, and hold space for those whose experiences of motherhood exist in the shadows.
10 May 2026
Rabindranath
You’re a traffic island in our consciousness,
O Rabindranath!
9 May 2026
The quiet burden of love: Silence, separation, and the lives unfulfilled in Tagore
Though his characters breathe through very human emotions, yearning, hesitation, separation, regret, Tagore lifts love gently away from the limits of the human hand. It becomes something inwardly vast, where feeling matters more than outcome, and presence matters more than possession. This is why his lovers often come close, yet never arrive.
9 May 2026
100 years of Attenborough: The man who taught the world to love the Earth
His voice still inspires humanity to love and protect earth
8 May 2026
The limits of genius: Women, caste, and the unfinished politics of Tagore
The gift Tagore leaves us is not perfection. It takes a lot of courage to even ask the question in the first place. Therefore, let us take up the work he left unfinished, under the same banyan tree he sat under, with the same soft breeze he felt, as the soft afternoon light turns gold when the sun starts to set. Was it his time? Yes. Would he be different today? We will never know. But us, asking, is our tribute.
7 May 2026
Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
Banu Mushtaq, an Indian writer who writes in Kannada language, was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2025 for “exploring the lives of those often on the periphery of society” in her collection of short stories, Heart Lamp (And Other Stories Publishing, 2024).
7 May 2026
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