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
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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
Art Against Genocide: A Testament of Time
As much as the ongoing Rohingya crisis is being extensively covered by the local and international media, the distinct lack of a serious
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
The Uprising of 1857
There is perhaps no event in the long history of the British empire in India that continues to exert so strong and abiding a fascination as the great uprising of 1857.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Proloyullash
Ring out your notes of triumph!
Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Temples and Mosques
“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam: Some Questions and Concerns
In his voice we continue to hear the cadences, inflections, and accents of resistance and even revolution.
25 May 2018, 18:00 PM
A novel set on the brink of insurgency
The hardcover is clothed with a blue dust jacket with an illustration of two egrets flying among clouds and above the title. The clouds, I believe, represent Kalimpong, where the novel is set and the story unrolls along its winding roads. Sometimes it leaps over continents and focuses on another character living an immigrant life in New York City. Sometimes, it travels to the past, shedding light on history.
23 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Pestilential Scourge - The Plague
Published in 1947, the background of Albert Camus' The Plague is that of Oran, a coastal town of colonial Algeria. The author certainly
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Daybreak
A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
You taught me language, and my profit on't
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
When I Met Pip
When I met Pip, he was hanging upside down. It was not by choice though; someone held him by his feet against his will and made
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Professor Fakrul Alam: Literature, Life and Translation
He is surely one of the most loved and respected professors in Bangladesh. Even though he was mostly anchored at the Department of
18 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Professor Nurul Islam’s Odyssey
This book is the story of Professor Nurul Islam, arguably Bangladesh's most famous living economist. The narrative begins with his
17 May 2018, 18:57 PM
Jiboner Bone Bone - A memoir that depicts Bangladesh
Jiboner Bone Bone (In the Forests of Life) is a heartfelt autobiography written by Nuruddin Ahmad (1920-2010), one of the first Bengali-Muslim officials of the Indian Forest Service (IFS). The tales of his eventful life take in the growth and coming to being of Bangladesh, his observations on Bengali middle-class society and how he worked his way to the top of the Forest Department in the midst of hostile British and Pakistani governments.
17 May 2018, 18:00 PM
O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)
Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh
The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Tagore, Gitanjali and the Nobel
It is perhaps redundant today to analyse the remark quoted above from the Introduction of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali or Song
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Mother
None can fathom
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Once Upon a Night
Surabala and I went to school together, played husband and wife, being the kids that we were. Whenever I went to their house, her
11 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Going to Hatiya Island
At first sight of our island, I confess
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Social “Cannibalism” and the Edible Women
The Edible Woman (1969) is the Canadian author Margaret Atwood's debut novel. It follows the story of Marian MacAlpin, a young
4 May 2018, 18:00 PM
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