Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters

21 June 2026, 17:40 PM ⁠⁠News
On June 19, 2026, the occasion was the 20th staging of “Love Letters”, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, translated and adapted into Bangla by writer and translator Professor Abdus Selim. Directed by veteran theatre actor and director Tropa Majumdar and staged by Group Theatre at the Dr. Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium, the production brought together the acting power couple, Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar. Their performances transformed what could have easily been a simple reading of letters into something deeply intimate and profoundly human.
Solitude
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM ⁠⁠Fiction
Fiction / Radiant deluge
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM ⁠⁠Fiction
Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
News Report / Illuminating the past and the present: The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
5 May 2026, 21:50 PM
The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, recognising publications, publication staff, individual journalists, and authors across 23 award categories for journalism, reporting, criticism, photography, authorship, and overall excellence in their fields. The winners for each category were announced on May 4,2026 via live broadcasts on the Pulitzer Prizes website and YouTube channel.

When She Misses Him (2009)

A sudden stillness!
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Searching for the Loved One: From the pen of a bereaved father

It was on August 25, 2018, an evening just after the Kurbani Eid holidays, when Mr. Kamran, 66, a returnee from Dubai, went to Banani graveyard, Dhaka to visit his mother’s and father’s graves. After saying prayers he asked the caretaker of the graveyard “Do you have any empty grave?”
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part 1)

Tanvir Mokammel hails from Khulna, which is also the workplace of Prof. Sabiha Huq. This past February, when he was in Khulna for the launching of his partition novel Kirtinasha, the English Department of Khulna University became the privileged venue for a
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Angels and Monsters

One late afternoon, dragging his injured leg Kamal finally stood in front of a particular door of a shanti. For some strange reason, he could not enter the house as he used to even five months ago. He called out in a trembling voice, “Nuru! Where are you, my son? I’m home.”
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM

A simple, straightforward reading of South Asian history

Dr Nurul Islam has been a towering presence in the intellectual landscape of Bangladesh. He has graduate degrees from Harvard, and held prestigious fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Yale and the Netherland School of Economics, was Professor and Chair of Economics at Dhaka University, and the author of about 29 books of some scholarly heft and influence.
29 August 2019, 18:00 PM

On loving childhood reads as an adult

I have been recovering from a very long and arduous block in my reading life, a block that could not be broken by the fattest or
29 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Beggar

Though I called out to the shopkeeper a couple of times, he didn’t heed me. He was too busy rearranging the products on the rack. As I was waiting for him to respond, a middle-aged beggar woman turned up on my left and begged for money from me. At first, I
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Fifteenth of August

The crimson hue is still in the morning sky.
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Why Is Writing So Difficult to Accomplish?

Writing is a struggle for everyone. If it seems easy, a writer is not doing it right. Because writing is mired in myths and misunderstanding, most writers – aspiring writers, in particular – consider the essential difficulty in writing as a pathology. They feel
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Ghoulish Sentiments

Slumped with our luggage we got off the train looking apprehensively at the quaint sight before us. Saplings and balding grasslands carpeted serenely with occasional trees of variety here and there. The scenery struck me with great unfamiliarity in contrast to the city
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Dsc Prize for South Asian Literature, 2019

Instituted by Surina and Manhad Narula in 2010, the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is one of the most prestigious international literary awards specifically focused on South Asian writing. It is a unique and coveted prize and is open to authors of any
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Review of Arundhati Roy’s Things that can and cannot be said

After I finished Things that can and cannot be said, I stood in awe of how much power I held in my hands. In this slim volume were the musings, passing insights, and finally, the long-awaited encounter—albeit censored—of some of the strongest voices against modern-day empire.
22 August 2019, 18:00 PM

The Tree

There the tree tom-tomed its existential glory on the bank of the small river at a distance from the village.
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Poems of Jibanananda Das

Had I but an eternal life (“Ananta Jibon Jodi Pai Ami”)
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Fragrance

Just as Azhar Kha was about to leave the room putting his shirt on, Lily made an entrance, “Baba, you promised!”
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Daughters of the sun

Rehana takes hesitant steps towards her house. Her Niqab renders the landscape a transparent shade of black smoke.
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Memoir of a Serpent Woman

I am Ranire, the serpent woman who lives in the rubbles of Al-Hammar Palace. Yes, you heard right—the accursed and legendary half woman and half snake that wanders in the desert land of Ukh-Tarar.
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Life Theft Auto: Vice City

“CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER”—the instruction pops up on the brand new 32-inch curved monitor’s screen. “Hmm… Which one? Which one should I select?” Genghis Khan murmurs.
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Of Itching and Scratching

I, an itching palm? —William Shakespeare
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM

Tagore Poems

Krishnakali I call her Krishnokoli, my dark blossom,
10 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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