TRIBUTE / On his 76th death anniversary: The other side of George Orwell
It is undoubted that George Orwell is one of the most important political writers of the 20th century. Labelling him a political writer reflects how deeply his life and works were influenced by the events he lived through.
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Beyond stereotypes: Rupert Grey’s ‘Homage to Bangladesh’
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FLASH FICTION / The rickshaw artist
24 January 2026, 01:52 AM
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FLASH FICTION / Pirouette of a phoenix
24 January 2026, 01:48 AM
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POETRY / Memories
24 January 2026, 01:36 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Lessons in Chemistry : A novel that reads you
22 January 2026, 15:54 PM
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EDITORIAL / Why read?
22 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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THE SHELF / 7 new books to look out for in 2026
22 January 2026, 00:00 AM
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EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Cross and concrete: Christianity’s built contradictions
24 December 2025, 07:16 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / A tangled knot of wealth and sin
22 December 2025, 11:07 AM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Finding common ground: How ‘Bela and Lily’ celebrates friendship across cultures
18 December 2025, 12:12 PM
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16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM / The pen that pierced the purdah
9 December 2025, 12:54 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / All’s almost well
3 December 2025, 12:44 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Between home and elsewhere
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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INTERVIEW / Reclaiming the unwritten: Kanika Gupta on colonialism, embodiment, and the art of remembering
Gupta shares her insights on reclaiming forgotten histories, reimagining myths, and connecting ancient narratives to contemporary ecological and social concerns.
22 November 2025, 11:51 AM
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REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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REFLECTIONS / The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
7 November 2025, 18:33 PM
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THE SHELF / 5 books on women’s everyday terror to read this Halloween: The horror that persists
31 October 2025, 13:45 PM
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THE SHELF / 8 books to read if you’re fascinated by the louvre heist
30 October 2025, 13:30 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Singing a 900-year-old song: Exploring Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
3 January 2026, 10:26 AM
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EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
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NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
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NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations
9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
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EVENT REPORT / “Words are, to me, a way of understanding truth”: An hour of history and poetry at ULAB
5 December 2025, 13:50 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Making of a mother: Discussing ‘IVF and Childlessness In Bangladesh’
What is motherhood, exactly? While biomedical sciences tell us one answer, the undeniable social experiences we gather throughout our lives say otherwise. What happens when technologies such as IVF (In-Vitro Fertilisation) allow women to surpass natural barriers to become mothers? Does it make women free from the constraints of motherhood, or does it reinforce them?
13 November 2025, 16:13 PM
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EVENT REPORT / An eco-critical look at Sultan: Reading the manuscript of ‘Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha’
8 November 2025, 11:43 AM
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EVENT REPORT / Zia Haider Rahman on his award-winning novel at NSU’s Colloquium series
The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University hosted a session of its Colloquium series titled “Zia Haider Rahman in Conversation with Dr Nazia Manzoor” on Tuesday, this week.
7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
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NEWS REPORT / “Curious love letter”: Wole Soyinka responds after US cancels visa
30 October 2025, 10:45 AM
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THE SHELF / 6 books that I read at the end of last year… I hated 5 of them
You know that feeling when you crack open a new book and you’re convinced that this is the knight in all its paperback shining armour that will save you from your reading slump? Yeah.
7 January 2026, 18:00 PM
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TRIBUTE / Remembering Razia Khan Amin: The pen that forged a generation’s courage
28 December 2025, 12:19 PM
THE SHELF / 5 books to rescue you from brainrot
17 October 2025, 14:45 PM
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
BOOK REVIEW: GRAPHIC NOVEL / The tragedy of ‘Demon Slayer’
10 October 2025, 14:30 PM
THE SHELF / 7 lyrical fantasy books: Where prose becomes poetry
7 October 2025, 11:14 AM
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / In which Arundhati gives it those ones
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
FICTION / The truth factory
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
The Bat-Mania and the Comics that Fuel it
Eventually, though, I did land on it, my first Bat-memory. It originated where my fandom for most superheroes originates—the land of comic books,
5 March 2022, 10:50 AM
YOUR BOI MELA STORIES: From the hospital to the Ekushey Boi Mela
I had started reading books when I was in class three, and I inadvertently found lots of books for me in my father’s bookshelf,
2 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Denise Mina’s ‘Rizzio’: A bloody slice of Scottish history
In 2021, Polygon, an Edinburgh-based publisher, launched the Darkland Tales, a series of “dramatic fictional retellings of stories from history, myth and legend” written by Scotland’s greatest contemporary writers. Denise Mina’s novella Rizzio is the first in the series.
2 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Books to better understand the Ukraine-Russia conflict
UKRAINE’S MAIDAN, RUSSIA’S WAR: A CHRONICLE AND ANALYSIS OF THE REVOLUTION OF DIGNITY
2 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Mapping the mangrove forest
Only a few people have both knowledge of and love for the Sundarbans.
2 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Scavenger hunt and cover reveal for debut novel ‘Aries: The Beginning’ at Bookworm Bangladesh
Academic and author Manizey Ibrahim Rahman unveiled the cover of her debut novel Aries: The Beginning (2022) with a book-themed scavenger hunt held at Bookworm Bangladesh on February 25, Friday.
2 March 2022, 12:29 PM
Brandon Sanderson announces five new novels “accidentally” written
Sanderson has written five “accidental” books between 2020 and 2022, four of which will be published as full-fledged novels in 2023.
2 March 2022, 10:00 AM
Sadat Hossain, Amin Al Rashid, Chanakya Barai win IFIC Bank Kali O Kalam ‘Torun Kobi O Lekhok’ Award 2021
IFIC Bank and Kali O Kolom jointly hosted the annual ‘Torun Kobi O Lekhok’ Awards at 7 pm on Saturday, February 26, in an online telecast. The ceremony was aired simultaneously from IFIC and Kali O Kolom’s Facebook pages.
27 February 2022, 15:25 PM
‘Jilapi Career’: Self-help career handbook for youth out now
Jilapi Career (Odommo Prokash, 2022), a book written for undergraduate students and young professionals, has been published and released at the Ekushey Boi Mela today.
26 February 2022, 13:23 PM
Boi Mela weekend updates
The Ekushey Boi Mela, which was inaugurated on February 15, witnessed good footfall over the weekend, which led to crowd gatherings near popular pavilions.
25 February 2022, 16:08 PM
Bengal Boi’s ‘Fagun Shomirone’ spring fair ends tomorrow
Bengal Boi has been hosting their spring fair, Fagun Shomirone, at their premises in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, which is due to end on Saturday, February 26.
25 February 2022, 15:53 PM
Books to read on the Bangla language movement
Countless stories, poems, essays, and novels have been written about the Bangla language movement of 1952. Biographies of martyrs have been authored.
23 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Rakhine, Bangla, and English: Freedom in three languages
Growing up in a bicultural household, I was exposed to two languages, two cultures, as a child. I picked up both the languages as my mother tongue—Bangla and Rakhine. Eventually, a third language,
23 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Only one thing missing from the Boi Mela
As the Ekushey Boi Mela comes and goes, I feel a certain dread of losing creatively admired people who are anticipated in our cultural celebration of intellectualism.
23 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Unique stall decor at the Ekushey Boi Mela
This year, while strolling across the Ekushey Boi Mela, I came across a variety of styles in stall decor.
23 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Gyankosh hosts author talk at Ekushey Boi Mela
Popular publication house, Gyankosh Prokashoni, hosted an Author Talk at its stall premises yesterday, on February 18. In an attempt to connect authors with their readers, Gyankosh took on this initiative and mentioned that such enterprise would help in bringing people closer to reading and promote bookish conversations.
19 February 2022, 09:09 AM
What does it take to prepare for Ekushey Boi Mela?
Amar Ekushey Boi Mela has been one of the most celebrated literary events of the country for decades. Every February, this book fair celebrates our love for language and literature, with a festive mood that lasts for a month. But what does it take to prepare for a fair this big?
16 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Novels to look out for at Ekushey Boi Mela this year
This novel explores the adventures of one Rustam, better known as Palowan Bhai. In Dhaka, even the wild animals fear Palowan Bhai for his quick-to-rise temper. But what happens when he visits the calm community of a village?
16 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home': A family grows into its skeletons
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) unfurls with heated family dysfunction, subtle and soaring ugliness, shame, and queer confusion. This is a story of a closeted gay father and his queer daughter, and how their bearings align.
16 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Boi Mela begins. Are publishers prepared?
First, the government authorities are always behind in planning and leave things for the last minute to reach concrete decisions, and often, these decisions don’t take into consideration pragmatic solutions that are sustainable and maintainable in the long term.
16 February 2022, 18:00 PM