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.
NEWS REPORT / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News
Solitude
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Fiction / Radiant deluge
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Poetry / Scorching silence
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / To pick or not to pick a bone
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / When ‘Little Women’ turns to murder: Katie Bernet reimagines a classic
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 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?
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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.
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
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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