Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026
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Books & Literature
What Jamir Nazir’s Commonwealth win tells us about literature in the age of AI
3 July 2026
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Literature
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026
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Literature
POETRY / Take me to a hibiscus field won’t you
13 December 2024
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Star Literature
POETRY / Our Bangla
13 December 2024
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Star Literature
THE SHELF / Pages for freedom: Book recommendations for Victory Day
13 December 2024
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Star Literature
Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at 92
14 May 2024
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Literature
POETRY / Be a tree
15 March 2024
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Star Literature
FICTION / The loss of essentiality
15 March 2024
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Star Literature
POETRY / THE OTHER WAY ROUND
8 December 2023
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Star Literature
DISTILLED, DELICATE, DEFINITIVE: SUDEEP SEN'S OEUVRE
Fractals is an encounter with a design paradigm, a certain matryoshka revelation of dolls-within-dolls.
22 January 2016
The sound of rain
The fluffy white puffs turned to a discordant grey
15 January 2016
Incongruity
I see a black darkness
15 January 2016
Human Shield
Rashna set out to meet Abedin on the Saturday after the incident at the procession, and on the way to the hospital in a rickshaw, she debated whether she was doing the right thing. It wasn't her responsibility to keep in touch with Abedin, but they had shared a perilous experience together, which seemed to make them more than strangers. They were both supposed to have been cut into pieces by Taleb and his men, but had miraculously survived. It still seemed unreal to Rashna because this sort of thing only happens in Bollywood movies.
15 January 2016
Jatiya Kabita Utshab begins Feb 1
Under the theme "Kobita Moitrir, Kobita Shantir", Jatiya Kabita Parishad is going to organise the 30th Jatiya Kabita Utshab at the Central
15 January 2016
Poet Rafiq Azad at ICU
Renowned poet Rafiq Azad is admitted to the ICU of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in Dhaka following a stroke.
15 January 2016
OUTSIDER
Sometimes I walk away from plights in my life
8 January 2016
You Can't Just Leave
Tobias Wolff would like to think his first published novel, “Ugly Rumours”, did not exist. It does not come up on any official list of his publications...
8 January 2016
HUMAN SHIELD
Rashna suddenly heard one of her classmates shout, “Look that's Abedin! They're going to kill him!” Rashna turned to see a young man on the ground and recognized Abedin immediately. He was their batch-mate, an attentive and serious student who
8 January 2016
Two Poems by Bimal Guha
Time is running out fast.
1 January 2016
FREEDOM?
The gates opened with a screech and I was out of the clinic, it's been over a month, the bright sun hit my eyes, I cringed. It was a
1 January 2016
Houri
“You are an ass and the rest of your life you will remain one,” Rocky Mirza said, condescendingly blowing a ring of smoke at him, “We
1 January 2016
China publisher pulls 'racy' Tagore poems translation
A Chinese publisher pulls a translation of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore's poems after it sparked controversy for racy content.
29 December 2015
Logan's Run author George Clayton Johnson dies at 86
Science-fiction writer George Clayton Johnson, who co-wrote the 1967 dystopian novel Logan's Run, passes away aged 86.
27 December 2015
Beginner's Guide to Nonfiction
When we talk about narrative literature, we generally mean fiction. Thrillers, fantasy, detective novels – name anything, and it's
23 December 2015
Dr Abdullah Shibli's books out
Two books, “Economic is Fun: Short Essays for the Masses” and “A Chance Encounter”, of Dr Abdullah Shibli, a regular
23 December 2015
Literacy rose in 20yrs: Campe
Over the last two decades, overall literacy attainment of the population increased while there has been a number of achievements in the
19 December 2015
The Lonely Woman
The sun is up in its never ending zest
11 December 2015
The Tree
Farah saw the tree as soon as she entered the new apartment. Her parents had come to Dhaka after the Partition of India in 1947.
11 December 2015
Songs of Freedom
Our equipment consisted mostly of small arms. We had virtually no indirect fire support (artillery). Even the mortars we had in our sector were without sights.
11 December 2015