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
Women at War: Shongramee Naree 52 and 71
Since the Liberation War in 1971 the readers in Bangladesh have seen many narratives on 1971 and 1952. In most of these, the central
6 April 2018
A GREEN DOVE IN SILENCE: FORTY PROSE POEMS IN TRANSLATION
There is a feel good factor about Gauranga Mohanta's collection of prose poems A Green Dove in Silence. A neat jacket, crispy pages,
6 April 2018
Pity
From behind a counter inside Tasty, her brother Anik's bakery shop, Hridi watches an old Westerner repeatedly tug on the glass door
30 March 2018
EXAMINATION WOES
With the examination season on, people feel pity for the stressed students burning the midnight oil as well as for their parents who, in
30 March 2018
I Can Choose to Go, But Why Should I?
Perhaps, it is better to turn around.
30 March 2018
Snippets
Her: Seen yesterday's sunset?
30 March 2018
BLRC Observes World Poetry Day
“Poetry should be free from Royalist Canada's university elites' hierarchy to come down to mass people” - was the resounding declaration
30 March 2018
REMINISCING HALCYON ELITE DAYS
Days with Dinko and other Memories, written by Monica Chanda, and edited and published by her daughter Malavika Karlekar, is a
30 March 2018
Poetry
It doesn't want a handful of puffed rice
30 March 2018
MY USELESS WEAPON
As Bird flocks take wing at the rattle of sten guns
23 March 2018
Ferdousi Priyabhashini: “A Lifelong Impression of Eternal Struggle”
The indescribable grief and agony the aftermath of 1971 had set off in the eventful life of Ferdousi Priyabhashini can be perceived
23 March 2018
The Days of War
On March 1 at 1.00 pm when Yahya Khan declared on the radio that he was suspending the National Assembly session because of the
23 March 2018
Skull among Bricks− a Grey Frame
Right now, I am all blue. I was supposed to have my feet on the ground, and study for my upcoming exam–which is in two days.
23 March 2018
The Death of Sorrow
Azgar Ali was not worried when the war broke out. Theirs was a quaint little village hiding by the slopes near the Garo Hills. It took
23 March 2018
Folk Hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
The process through which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) became a folk hero in Bangladesh, that is to say, the way in which his
16 March 2018
Bangladesh During those Turbulent Days of March, 1971
The historic announcement of March 7 by Bangabandhu was, in fact, the call for the independence of Bangladesh. The speech inspired
16 March 2018
BRAVERY HAS NO AGE RESTRICTION
With the rise of fake Freedom Fighter certificates, it is nearly impossible not to be a cynic when one hears about early teen or eleven
16 March 2018
My Absence
In the sultry air of March yawns my absence.
16 March 2018
Colonial History Disrupted: Interpreting the Bottom Line
As Josh Katz says in a recent New York Times article, there has been a 540% increase in Fentanyl-related deaths over the past three
16 March 2018
Un-Romanticising the Colonial History
Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017, Hurst: London, 296 pages) does not tell any untold story. The
16 March 2018
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