Fiction / Sahara
29 August 2026
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Fiction
I have not eaten today. Not on purpose. I will eat later. I simply have not thought of it yet.
Poetry / The finality of nostalgia
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Dinner time and death
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
23 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / A novel of radical softness
20 August 2026
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Cooking up heat
20 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Event Report / In Transit: The Third Annual Slam Poetry at North South University
19 August 2026
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News
Essay / Poet Shamsur Rahman’s drama translation: Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Marco Millions’
15 August 2026
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Essay
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
What becomes increasingly evident across Bahl’s three novels is her sustained fascination with the emotional significance of almosts and maybes.
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026
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 / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026
The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University is pleased to announce the second offering of its Certificate Course in Creative Writing, set to begin in Summer 2026. This innovative seven-week intensive program is designed to cultivate the next emerging literary voices by providing a structured, mentor-led environment that emphasises Bangladesh’s rich cultural narratives.
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
Transatlantic Transitions: Back to Global Future?
The term 'transatlantic relations' has emerged as a dominant paradigm in the study of relations between Europe and the United States.
6 July 2018
STORY-ISH
He calculated the distance, the people between them, and kicked the football with perfect precision at her – that haughty one – gliding
6 July 2018
A Short, Winding and Legendary Dhaka Road
Fuller Road, the short and winding road in the middle of the University of Dhaka campus, is quite legendary, not only as far as the
6 July 2018
The Enchanted Wood and other childhood stories of travel
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, a little girl got her hands on a book, a book about siblings, of living in the countryside, and going on adventures—a book that would later give way to other books on more adventures and misadventures, turning the little child into an adult who constantly daydreams of taking off to some faraway land.
5 July 2018
Through the doors
There cannot be a book more for our times than Mohsin Hamid's Exit West which came out last year, at the peak of the European migration “crisis”. Hamid's earlier The Reluctant Fundamentalist too tackled contemporary issues of identity, Islamophobia, and disenchantment with US foreign policy, against the backdrop of 9/11.
5 July 2018
“Sugar Candy Bullets Can't Pierce Anything” other than maybe your heart
A looming sense of apprehension fills the pages of Kazuki Sakuraba's celebrated work – Sugar Candy Bullets Can't Pierce Anything.
4 July 2018
Islam: A Short History
History by definition denotes all the events that happened in the past but recorded, as Winston Churchill puts it, by
29 June 2018
Niceland Iceland
the fragment is all that survived…
29 June 2018
FARAAZ
From Paradise gazing, we saw green on your face
29 June 2018
INTO THE BLACK FOREST
Towering evergreen trees, thick clumps of fern and gorgeous waterfalls—yes, we are talking about Schwarzwald or
29 June 2018
The World's End
The rusted bogies were scattered like confetti at the path's end. Mounds of bricks and sand, abandoned boxes, stray
29 June 2018
The Idea of a Private University
Perhaps it is time one should write on the real idea behind a private university and prove that Newman and his ideas
29 June 2018
A wrong choice and its aftermath
I picked up this book on a whim. Maybe it was the easy-to-hold feel of it. Or maybe it was the golden sticker adorning the names of the prizes it has amassed that floated on the water hyacinth covered pond. Whatever the reason, it sure didn't disappointed me.
27 June 2018
GOODGE STREET STATION
For a split second I was startled beyond belief. For a longer while, maybe about a minute, I must have stood still with my mouth agape
22 June 2018
Through the Eyes of Mrs. Funnybones
Balancing beautifully between her panache and wit, Twinkle Khanna a.k.a. Mrs. Funnybones shares some insider's information of the
22 June 2018
A Tale of Rohingya: A Take on Dislocation and Displacement
The life of refugee people has always been difficult, and in the current world it has taken on a monstrous form across borders.
22 June 2018
Djinn City: Myth and Mystery in Dhaka's Underbelly
No need for a movie tonight! Grab yourself a cup of steaming hot chai, turn off all distractions, and get strapped in for the
22 June 2018
THE MAN WITH THREE NATIONALITIES
“This house,” said Mr Ranodhir Palchaudhuri, the owner of the colonnaded 19th century Neel Kuthi at Maheshgunj, “was built by a
22 June 2018
SEX OR SLEEP OR SILK
You are the night
22 June 2018
At an Ominous Time
My spirit is in tatters
8 June 2018
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