NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
News
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.
POETRY / Notice for the poems that won’t be written
28 March 2026, 03:37 AM
Poetry
FICTION / Faded blue suitcase
28 March 2026, 03:44 AM
Fiction
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The spiritual anatomy of womanhood and folk
27 March 2026, 00:15 AM
Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: POETRY / The spark of ‘Red Spark’
27 March 2026, 00:11 AM
Reviews
THE SHELF / Literature born from the fight for Bangla
26 March 2026, 19:19 PM
The Shelf
THE SHELF / From history to mystery: 6 ‘thought daughter’ books to make you think
24 March 2026, 21:26 PM
The Shelf
POETRY / Ophelia's flower
23 March 2026, 19:55 PM
Poetry
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Homage to Rani-ma on her centenary year
Non-fiction review
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / The wilderness in me
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / A firebrand’s journey to Washington from Barisal
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Reflection
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
EDITORIAL / Why read?
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / Moon, memory, manifesto: A personal, lyrical essay on Atrai
Books & Literature
REFLECTIONS / The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
Books & Literature
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
Books & Literature
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Poetry
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
News
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
News
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
Books & Literature
EVENT REPORT / Singing a 900-year-old song: Exploring Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
3 January 2026, 10:26 AM
Books & Literature
A book talk on Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury’s latest work, the translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Bengali, published by Matribhasha Prokashwas held on 27th December 2025, at Bookworm Bangladesh.The event was hosted by scientist and writer Dr. Abed Chaudhury.
EVENT REPORT / NSU DEML Winter Fest 2025 celebrates storytelling, art, and youth voices
14 December 2025, 08:17 AM
Books & Literature
NEWS REPORT / NSU’s DEML ‘Winter Fest’ to debut with art, literature, and campus-wide celebrations
9 December 2025, 13:02 PM
Books & Literature
A lively winter fair will present locally crafted accessories and seasonal favourites, celebrating community creativity and winter warmth
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
Books & Literature
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Fiction
The scramble was almost instantaneous and without mercy. Men in freshly tailored panjabis—stitched for the next morning's prayers—threw elbows for the simple right to go back home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
FICTION / Little Grey - Part 2
21 February 2026, 01:27 AM
THE SHELF / If characters from different books went on a date
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
POETRY / Potatoes are burning in the fryer
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
THE SHELF / 5 books to read as a performative male
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A collection of books by renowned writers you cannot read
Each year, one writer contributes a text that will remain unpublished and unread until 2114.
14 September 2025, 13:30 PM
The truth factory
By the year 2035, Dhaka forgets the scent of the Gulshan-Banani lake.
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
Dhaka myths
I have become the smoke .In someone’s teacup at 8,.The quiet breeze that flickers a candle–.before the call to prayer..Dhaka, you burned me to ash.And tried to mold me like Hephaestus .As if I were your forged blade,.Your myth-woven metal..But stil
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
Your hands shook the whole time
Winters feel less like winters, the sun
burns on my fragile skin. December. Tell me it’s
12 September 2025, 18:54 PM
Standing firm against the establishment: Farewell Badruddin Umar
Always a voice against the ruling class, Badruddin Umar was a fierce critic of the post-1971 regime of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
11 September 2025, 13:30 PM
The Indosphere and its discontents
In the year 1025, a fleet of warships set sail from the Coromandel Coast of southern India on a mission of conquest.
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Abandon hope, all ye who enter grad school
If Dante Alighieri were a frustrated PhD student with a caffeine addiction and a strong disdain for university bureaucracy, he might have created Katabasis, as R.F. Kuang did.
10 September 2025, 18:00 PM
When dreams refuse to stay silent
The launch brought together literature, art, and reflection, marking the arrival of Breaking Dreams as a work that speaks both to individual lives and to the wider social realities of Bangladesh.
9 September 2025, 13:00 PM
'Da Vinci Code' author Dan Brown releases latest thriller
"The Secret of Secrets", which runs to nearly 700 pages in English, marks Brown's return eight years after his last novel, "Origin".
9 September 2025, 10:19 AM
The fire that has no shape
What do you carry in your heart’s bundle?
A lineage?
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
A visit before the journey
Before returning to Australia, I felt a quiet urgency to visit my elderly and ailing relatives in Dhaka. Not just a social obligation—it was something deeper, a whisper from within. I heard such visits were acts of virtue, but for me, it was more about connection, memory, and respect..A fe
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
The dawn’s return
Long, long ago, when the world was younger, wiser, softer, when the animals were braver and the people were gentler, when art lived and music sailed, and the skies were a true, honest blue, there lived a man who loved a woman, and they lived in a little house they loved very much. How they met o
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
No one taught her this
One of the memoir’s most striking elements is Westover’s refusal to paint her family in simple black and white
4 September 2025, 14:15 PM
The imperfect art of leaving
In a recent conversation I had with a well-regarded photographer about his longitudinal study on a subject, he talked about Sufism and the structure of the raagas in classical music where a single refrain being repeated was actually an inward search for deeper meaning.
3 September 2025, 18:01 PM
Bridging divides: Aruna Chakravarti’s journey through Bengal’s hidden narratives
"You have done an excellent job. People who know English tell me that your translations are better than the originals," said the late Sunil Gangopadhyay to Aruna Chakravarti on her translation of his writings.
3 September 2025, 18:01 PM
Mother, memory, and defiance: Inside Arundhati Roy’s new memoir
The memoir situates Roy’s personal story alongside her public life as an outspoken critic of state power, globalisation, and inequality.
31 August 2025, 12:30 PM
Sonnet of the riverbank: Remembering Al Mahmud, the poet
Some poets arrive like rain on parched soil—needing no defense, only recognition. Al Mahmud (1936–2019) was one of them. And yet, in the usual crookedness of history, we have found ourselves having to defend what should already have been canonised. There was a time—not long ago—when his name uns
29 August 2025, 19:49 PM
Three songs: Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ami chiratare dur-e chole jabo.(I will go far away forever).I’ll go far away forever—.yet I won’t let myself be obliviated..I’ll turn air to knot your hair.when the bun gets loose..Immersed in your tune.when the sky dozes, wind weeps,.with teary ey
29 August 2025, 19:48 PM
I’m with the band (vicariously)
I was born too late for CBGB’s, too offline for MySpace and too far away from dive bars. I came to all of it two entire decades late so The Strokes wasn’t exactly the soundtrack to my reckless twenties but a band I happened to stumble into during a mid-pandemic spiral.
27 August 2025, 18:00 PM
The bard of love and rebellion in prose
Being a musician who grew up singing and listening to Kazi Nazrul Islam’s songs, I was quite familiar with his writing, particularly his diction, figures of speech, and sundry themes.
27 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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