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.

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

Daybreak

A perfect luminous ball with deep, wide craters and spots, like freckles-
18 May 2018

Two Poems

You taught me language, and my profit on't
18 May 2018

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

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

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

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

Mother

None can fathom
11 May 2018

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

O Herald of the New (Hey nutan)

Let the auspicious hour of birth come around once again.
11 May 2018

The Twenty-Fifth of Baisakh

The twenty-fifth of the month of Baisakh flows on—
11 May 2018

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

Going to Hatiya Island

At first sight of our island, I confess
4 May 2018

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

ECLECTIC ESSAYS

Muhammad Zamir is a prolific writer, notably for the national newspapers of Bangladesh, and writes proficiently in both Bengali and
4 May 2018

Dressed Like a Daydream

The pool was midnight blue, adorned by the reflection of thousands of stars. It blended perfectly well with my deepest, nearly-pitch-
4 May 2018

Ghalib Ki Dilli (Part II)

Some years back, I had read of the restoration of the Ghalib haveli. The premises in 1995 had served as a heater workshop. It opened
4 May 2018

Poetry

You, who are
27 April 2018

The Endless I

Within the givens of life
27 April 2018

OF WEDDING GIFTS

After a month's respite, with the inauspicious Pous being over, the Bengali wedding season has come back with a big vengeance, so to
27 April 2018
Show in Mobile App Off
Show Sub Category Off
Show in Homescreen Off