Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
News
Not every story ends with rejoicing. Not all questions are answered within one lifetime. Not everyone will get to fulfil their dreams. All my protagonists are incomplete until the end. And the end itself offers no catharsis. It’s the same darkness that was present when the reader met them the first time. I write about the world and the people within it the way I have experienced the world.
Shilpakala hosts evening of poetry and theatre
7 June 2026, 11:26 AM
Entertainment
Poetry / A woman-shaped exhaustion
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
News
Book Review: Fiction / ‘Chaashabhushar Sontan’: A quest for many questions and answers
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
Book Review: Nonfiction / The story of Bangladesh’s books
4 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Creative non-fiction
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
Alt-lit / 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?
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
6 books that bring Bangladesh to life for diaspora teens
For teenagers growing up far from Bangladesh, the country can often feel like a patchwork of family anecdotes, festival memories, and half-understood news headlines. Books, however, have the power to fill in the gaps–to offer voices and histories that make the abstract appear real. The following
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
The hair fair
On the northern side of Dholgram, a very large field hosts a fair every year–a Hair Fair, where people gather to show off their hair. The one who has the longest hair gets the highest honour. All kinds of hair can be seen–entangled, shiny, untidy, thin, black, and grey–all sorts of hairy people
10 October 2025, 19:11 PM
Transmutation
The torn tune of a broken violin.Signifies the evanescence of joy..So many faded voices intermingle .This day and the night. .Moonlight has disappeared .In the sky overcast with commingled clouds. .The wind is sombre with the sadness .Of Bismillah’s ‘she
10 October 2025, 19:10 PM
The tragedy of ‘Demon Slayer’
As 'Demon Slayer' grips the world with its engaging story and out-of-the-world visuals, one can’t help but wonder about the anime’s tragedy hidden behind its scenic moments and painful farewells
10 October 2025, 14:30 PM
Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Wins for his 'compelling and visionary oeuvre'
9 October 2025, 11:21 AM
Nobel literature buzz tips Western male author
Experts give nod to an Australian, a Romanian, a Swiss and two Hungarians
9 October 2025, 06:47 AM
Blood, desire, and the fight against patriarchy
As we approach Halloween this October, I thought a story about the supernatural would be the most appropriate book review choice.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Cages of flesh and bone: Deconstructing social hierarchies with ‘The Zamindar’s Ghost’ and ‘Shakchunni’
In the mist-covered hills of Ooty and the famine-ravaged villages of Bengal, they speak of ghosts. They whisper of a Zamindar’s phantom haunting a grand manor and a shape-shifting shakchunni preying on a crumbling estate.
8 October 2025, 18:00 PM
7 lyrical fantasy books: Where prose becomes poetry
These are books that invite you to pause over a line, to linger in a paragraph, to lose yourself not in spectacle but in rhythm
7 October 2025, 11:14 AM
UK author Jilly Cooper dies aged 88: agent
Her agent said in a statement Monday
6 October 2025, 10:10 AM
Inheritance of luck
I train myself not to meet their eyes—
those begging at corners,
3 October 2025, 19:30 PM
The ghosts of memory, regret, and guilt return: A conversation with Ayman Asib Shadhin
He debuted as a screenwriter with the dark comedy–thriller Mainkar Chipay (2020), the first Bangladeshi ZEE5 original film, followed by Contract (2021), the platform’s first Bangladeshi original series, which he co-wrote and adapted from Mohammad Nazimuddin’s bestselling thriller.
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
Durga
In the hush—footsteps fill the laden streets, .grasshoppers teeth to return home. Veiled divine mother, .she blooms in shards—from under the rain.from beyond the sallow moon.in her lion’s gait… tidal sorrow pushing through .your swallowing metropolitan heap. .
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
‘Pustokaloy’: Where books breathe and memories speak
Notable works include Jinnatun Jannat’s “Canvas 1947: DADA”, a mixed-media compilation that traces her family’s displacement during Partition through digitally printed photographs, watercolours, and ink drawings.
2 October 2025, 13:45 PM
At the neoliberal table: Who eats and who gets eaten in ‘Carnivore’
K. Anis Ahmed’s Carnivore serves up a daring and disturbing literary dish. The novel is part crime thriller, part immigrant narrative, and part sociopolitical allegory.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
In which Arundhati gives it those ones
This is not a book review. At least not in the traditional sense where the reviewer recaps the gist of a book, quoting and analyzing parts, drawing or pointing to conclusions.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Gibran, illustrated: Zeina Abirached’s take on ‘The Prophet’
Particularly striking is her choice of working only in black and white, letting both the poetry and her art speak for themselves in their rawest forms.
28 September 2025, 13:45 PM
The u-turn
Is he eyeing me?.That young man with the receding hairline, flipping through a paperback on a discount table. No, revise that. He is not so young really, as my second take reconsiders. A freshness in his eyes made him look more youthful. If not for his thinning scalp, that little paunch un
26 September 2025, 19:02 PM
Side notes to everything I have ever known
I take my tea with two teaspoons of brown sugar, but some fine mornings, I betray my routine and chase the jolt in my fingers as I put the spoon down after just one or when I reach for another after the second. Even if for a fleeting moment, I love not recognising myself, not knowing where I wil
26 September 2025, 19:01 PM
Bangladeshi theatre: A sociopolitical study
Theatre in Bangladesh has never been merely a form of entertainment. It has always served as a mirror to society, reflecting its contradictions, struggles, and aspirations.
24 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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