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.

Nirbachito Galpa: A Reflection of Middle-Class Lifestyle

Abul Hayat is a renowned Bangladeshi actor. Starting with Oedipus in 1969, he has acted in over five hundred plays to date. Not
8 June 2018

THE ETERNAL BARD

Just the other day I was watching over CNN the celebrated journalist Christianne Amanpour prefacing her interview of the veteran
8 June 2018

Snippets

Boss: What is a Botox filler?
8 June 2018

Two Poems

When home is broken
8 June 2018

Once in a Blue Moon

That Man with heavy glasses-
8 June 2018

THE SMOKE ALARM

Since it was my fourth or fifth visit to the US, I considered myself a pro there. When I reached my cousin's home in Hicksville, Long Island on a Monday morning, she was busy preparing to leave for office.
8 June 2018

Poetry

Death news often comes
1 June 2018

A Requiem of Rain

Maybe it was a feeling of triumph that I felt on my way to the bus stand. A sensation of joy took me over and made me forget about
1 June 2018

The Philosopher & the Poet

These stories were told to John Drew by the Hungarian poets Ádám Nádasdy, translator of Shakespeare and Dante, and Győző Ferencz, Keeper of the Radnóti Archive.
1 June 2018

A Review of The Sunset Club

'Boorha Binch' is the term used by walkers and wanderers in the historical urban jewel that are the Lodhi Gardens in central New Delhi.
1 June 2018

The Best Asian Short Stories: Stories from a Changing Continent

A son worries whether his mother, who is travelling alone, will be able to haul her luggage down from the conveyor belt. An elderly
1 June 2018

Literature's #MeToo

The committee that decides the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature every year is in shambles. The Swedish Academy, rocked by a sexual harassment scandal against an individual close to the committee,
31 May 2018

Resurrection of an emancipator

Ours is a society of cultural amnesia, so it is not surprising that Alamgir Kabir is not a part of our usual reminiscences.
31 May 2018

Temples and Mosques

“Kill those outsiders!” “Bash the non-believers!”—the riot between the Hindus and Muslims had begun anew.
25 May 2018

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

In an Old Metropolis Once We Lived

When I put my first step
25 May 2018

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

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

Proloyullash

Ring out your notes of triumph! Ring out your notes of triumph!
25 May 2018

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
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