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.

In search of words

Who says words are like butterflies? I see invisible shackles.
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM

From Gitabitan "Prohor Shesher Aloi Ranga"

The moment I saw your eyes in the crimson glow
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Allegiance

The barred windows and fortress walls,
15 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Ekushey Boi Mela - In conversation with 4 young authors

Star Weekend speaks to four young writers about launching their books at this year's Ekushey Boi Mela, about what influences their work, and their thoughts on the state of the literary scene in Bangladesh. A consensus emerged on the inspiration they receive from their childhood and the world around them and on the need for better editing, book marketing, and royalty payments in the industry.
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Sustainable English language teacher development at scale: Lessons from Bangladesh

Externally-funded English language projects of different stripes are an integral part of Bangladeshi education. These projects come
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The Story of a Moonlit Night (Part 2)

Foreign calls were cheap these days. So the parents had whined and cried on the phone: how could they bear their only son living
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

A CONGREGATION OF DYING BIRDS

Mother-- please don't call me again at the end of day;
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Jayant Kaikini & Tejaswini Niranjana win the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

As No Presents Please emerges as the winner from a shortlist of six to take the coveted US $25,000 DSC Prize, Jerry Pinto comments,
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

T.S.Eliot's Cat

It is a wonderful irony that T.S. Eliot, the publication of whose long poem The Waste Land a century ago is taken by the intelligentsia to
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The Boat People: Safety and its Downsides

In the face of dehumanizing discrimination, insurgency is important, but not when it deviates towards inhumanity from humanity,
1 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Lalon's Moon Songs

A moon merging with another moon—
1 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The Puzzles of Trees and Moons

“Everyone has a tree.”Golibe said. “And every man craves a moon. The moon is what he wants but the tree is where he ends. The tree is
1 February 2019, 18:00 PM

The Story of a Moonlit Night (Part I)

It was a moonlit night – I wouldn't have known had I not gone to the rooftop.
1 February 2019, 18:00 PM

A Translation of Rabindranath Tagore

You say a lot, but not what you hide,
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Two micro-stories of Mohammad Anwarul Kabir

He has on a worn-out Sherwani, a knee-length coat buttoning to the neck, with faded laces and patches here and there.
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

The old romance lives on . . .

It was thrilling, in our raw undefiled youth, to step into the Department of English back in September 1975. That was the day when a bunch of 'scholarly' young men and glamorous young women first came to know that they had all been taken into first years honours classes.
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Putting Bangladeshi Literary Culture on the World Map

The year 2019 began with much hope for those of us headed to the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) held in Chicago this year. Chi Town has always held a fascination for me, and more so because I am unable to go there frequently as I have zero driving skills.
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

London and the Tower of London

In a previous article, I wrote about my visit to Haworth, Yorkshire, home of the Brontë sisters. Now I think that if I don't write about the Big Smoke, I will be leaving out a big part of my experience in England.
25 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Ottegsahon: Caress Of The Muse

The adage goes that almost every Bengali is born with poetry in his/her heart. Note the word - almost! There exists, blissfully, exceptions to this byword. Happily,
18 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Robert Mshengu Kavanagh: A Strong Voice against Apartheid and Oppression in Southern Africa

September 7, 2018; a big hall in Ibsenhuset (The Ibsen House; museum, archive and theatre dedicated to Henrik Ibsen in his birth town, Skien). An actors' session of
18 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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