Essay / When fanfiction swapped out fans for publishing deals

16 April 2026, 00:00 AM Essay
It sounds flippant to put it that way but, the Aeneid, at its core, really is a continuation fic—picking up where Homer’s Trojan War ended and following Aeneas, a minor character in the canon, as he stumbles through an entirely new narrative along with original characters and incredibly expanded lore.
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
The book features 15 chapters covering essential topics such as attachment styles, love languages, and shadow work.
EVENT REPORT / Singing a 900-year-old song: Exploring Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury
3 January 2026, 10:26 AM
A book talk on Zeba Rasheed Chowdhury’s latest work, the translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Bengali, published by Matribhasha Prokashwas held on 27th December 2025, at Bookworm Bangladesh.The event was hosted by scientist and writer Dr. Abed Chaudhury.

THE ENGLISHING OF 'OMAR KHAYYÁM

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM

The Goat from the Other Side of the River

“Doctor,” I chalk on the charcoal board. I ponder for several long seconds until I put two crosses on it with the kind of exertion that
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM

The Art World is Essentially Male

In 1666 Margaret Cavendish wrote a science fiction work titled The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World, although it
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM

DANCING IN THE DARK: MY STRUGGLE BOOK 4

This is the fourth installment of the six-volume autobiography of Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard and has been translated
8 December 2017, 18:00 PM

A Novel dripping with tragic tales of history

With the aforementioned Akan proverb, Yaa Gyasi welcomes the readers to her novel, “Homegoing”, where dark history unravels itself, reminding the readers of the slave trade that has carved its marks on history's shoulders.
6 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Art and Poetry Makes Singing in Dark Times More Relevant

The poet may be the priest of the invisible if we are to concur with Wallace Stevens. When art and poetry intersect, the invisible suddenly turns into the visible truth and this visible art is the skein that keeps the freedom of expression
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM

The Vanishing American Adult

Benjamin Eric Sasse aka Ben Sasse is a freshman Republican Senator from Nebraska. A doctorate in American History from Yale, Sasse was named President of Midwestern University, Freemont Nebraska in 2010.
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Rada Intensity

We were out in the park, frolicking—all sixteen of us. Well, sort of! We were gamboling all right, but this was a part of the Alexander Technique exercise, something any casual observer in the park might not have understood.
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM

In Prison

The room is locked from outside;
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM

Patriot Acts

Early the next morning, after Rafi finally turned off the TV and closed his eyes on the couch, a text message startled him out of sleep: “Get a big American flag, hang outside your door, Dad.” His father always signed off, even though his name would appear with his texts and calls. Rafi set down the phone and tried to sleep again. A second text intruded on it: “Take down Black Lives Matter sign. Please. For now. Dad.”
1 December 2017, 18:00 PM

On A Street

Nanga Pagla the sky‑clad one
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Autumn Fragment

November, where are the mists of yesteryear?
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

DLF DIARIES

I wrote this for you, Mamma—for being insufferable on Day 1,
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM WINS THE DSC PRIZE FOR 2017

Anuk Arudpragasam has been announced the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage at the Dhaka Lit on the 18th November, 2017.
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

“Every Poet Has to Find His or Her Own Way” Kaiser Haq in Conversation with Rumana Siddique

RS: How did you get into writing, who were the major influences on your work when you started writing and which contemporary writers do you identify with now?
24 November 2017, 18:00 PM

The Idea of Order in Bangladesh

I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM

A Welsh Poet Foresees His Death: Rakhine Province, 1944.

As many hundreds of thousands of refugees stream out of Rakhine, leaving behind family killed and homes reduced to ashes, it may seem, and maybe is, peculiarly insensitive, untimely and Eurocentric to refer to the death of one Welsh poet in their homeland nearly 75 years ago.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM

9/11 Cataclysm and Sustaining Fear

The other day I was reading Deepa Kumar's Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire while traveling on a bus from Rajshahi to my home
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Searching

A pebble ran to a beach in search of a home
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM

Using Fictional Techniques to Write History

The Last Mughal: the Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple is the most engrossing book that I've read recently.
17 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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