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
In defense of brevity
You’ve got a fantastic project, and have found a potential investor for this. They’ve given you two minutes to deliver a killer pitch and convince them you’re worth it.
31 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Woolf in the wind
This was a conversation between two friends.A conversation inspired by Virginia Woolf, who passed away on March 28, 1941
31 March 2023, 18:00 PM
‘Delete’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 8
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 8 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Delete
31 March 2023, 16:18 PM
‘Phobia’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 7
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 7 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Phobia.
30 March 2023, 16:20 PM
How reading the Quran turned from a hobby into a habit
Every evening, after coming home from school, the first thing I would do is sit with the Quran and an English translation of it that my father had on his shelves.
30 March 2023, 12:45 PM
‘Astronaut’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 6
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 6 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Astronaut.
29 March 2023, 15:40 PM
Rebellion in words: Contemporary feminist books
Women have been fighting for their rights for centuries now, and the world is yet to facilitate that kind of equality. But it has not stopped them from trying to bring down the shackles of patriarchy.
29 March 2023, 12:45 PM
Iowa’s International Writing Program now open to Bangladeshi youth
The virtual creative writing summer camp will take place from July 8 to 21, 2023. Applications are due by April 21.
29 March 2023, 10:01 AM
‘Remember’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 5
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 5 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Remember
28 March 2023, 17:08 PM
Reading for spirituality during Ramadan
A unique opportunity to enhance one's spirituality and reflect on one's faith
28 March 2023, 11:50 AM
Jhumpa Lahiri’s first short story collection in 15 years
The latest bent in Jhumpa Lahiri's decades-long foray into Italian life and literature
28 March 2023, 07:42 AM
‘Shadow’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 4
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 4 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Shadow
27 March 2023, 15:45 PM
What to read to feel the magic of spring
Regardless of the ambience of these part-sunny-part gloomy days, there is always a book to suit to the mood
27 March 2023, 12:45 PM
‘Middle’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 3
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Middle
26 March 2023, 14:17 PM
You said
Notun Bazar was burning, burning! /Shops, stores, woodpiles/ Piled up iron, timber, mosques and temples/ Notun Bazar was burning, burning!
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Smell of corpse in the air
I smell corpses rotting in the air to this day
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
Poetry, my useless weapon
As bird flocks take wing at the rattle of Sten guns
25 March 2023, 18:00 PM
‘Candle’: Sehri Tales selections, Day 2
The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Candle.
25 March 2023, 13:46 PM
‘Shadow and Bone’: new member of the "poor book adaptation club"
This season tries to cover too much ground and misplaces its focus in the process.
25 March 2023, 10:47 AM
Interview with a Birangona
That evening,
a blade sliced through string, through
skin, red on red on red. Kutta, the man
in khaki says. It is only later I realize
it is me he is calling dog. Dog. Dog.
25 March 2023, 09:23 AM
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