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.

Crescent: A Review

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My Life with Shakespeare

When you are asked to write a memoir or something about Shakespeare, you should know that you have reached your expiration date.
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Ghalib ki Dilli (Part I)

I should have been listening to one of the scores of imaginative events on the poetry, life and times of the pre-eminent poet of the
27 April 2018

Jibanananda Das: Baitarani

I'm not sure when I rose from the grave of death—
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Anne -The Hopeless Dreamer

If you are a fan of Little Women or What Katy Did series, Anne of Green Gables and its sequels are just the thing you have been looking
20 April 2018

Where Reality Meets Fiction

“All our lives, we are never in a single moment at any time”- said Arundhati Roy in her interview with Patrick Carey for Books and Arts.
20 April 2018

Fundamentalism in Bangladesh: A Review

Prof. Abul Barkat, who is known as “people's economist,” has published a book on fundamentalism in Bangladesh from Muktobuddhi
20 April 2018

Tagore Songs

With him, “no” will never do.
20 April 2018

Prodigy

The smell of spicy food was making Sam hungry. After a long wait at the restaurant, the waiter came with the food. He had a mask
20 April 2018

BIDDING ADIEU TO RADA

The terrible realization was setting in almost all, if not all of us. The dream days of fun and work in equal measure at RADA were
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A Different Kind of Cookbook

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A Brief History of Pahela Baishakh

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13 April 2018

Alpanas: “Dreams under your feet”

If you ask me, it is not unlikely that alpana and kalpana should sound almost similar, since without kalpana, or creative ingenuity, it is
13 April 2018

Baishakhi Spirit, which art Moving Everywhere

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13 April 2018

Pahela Baishakh in Carbondale

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A Review of His Chariot of Life: Liberation War, Politics and Sojourn in Jail

After Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was slapped an uncertain prison term at the end of what he describes as a 'kangaroo trial,' on 18
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One heirloom, many wolves

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Poetry

Some days I come knocking at your door
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In Search of a Hero

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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: KUTCH

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