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.

War, in all its suffering

"Most children have two whole legs and two whole arms but this little six-year-old that Dinesh was carrying had already lost one leg, the right one from the lower thigh down, and was now about to lose his right arm.” Anuk Arudpragasam's powerful debut novel “The Story of a Brief Marriage” starts with this haunting description of a shrapnel-struck child being brought to a makeshift clinic and about to undergo
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The Tide of Nationalism in the Rise of Bangladesh

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9 March 2018

LOVE THE ENDURING KIND

"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
9 March 2018

A Life Truly Worth Living

Say this, don't say that.
9 March 2018

ICONS, AUTOGRAPH HUNTING AND SAVVY ACTRESS-IN-TRAINING

I was never an autograph hunter. Never felt the urge, or the thrill, or the bragging right, or any of the rapid heart-thumping emotions
9 March 2018

Fairy Tales

“Up there he floats,
9 March 2018

Five Hours in Frankfurt

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9 March 2018

LOVE IN THE TIME OF TINDER

“Are you interested in spiritually inclined younger men?” My recent tinder match asked.
9 March 2018

Footprints of Million Lives

Darkness had fallen upon the graveyard of thousand lives, along with a cold breeze which swept away the rotten stench of dead flesh.
9 March 2018

Poetry

If we eventually are
2 March 2018

Postmortem of My Skin

Pasty green doesn't suit you. White makes you look darker. Why would you even dare to wear black? That's forbidden. Don't even think
2 March 2018

A G Stock's Memoirs of Dacca University

“The book is a memoir, not a history, and makes no claim to a historian's detachment or research.” With this statement, A G Stock
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Enduring Life

racing ahead
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BANERJEE VS. CHATTERJEE 1945

I know of Capt. Banerjee, Military Observer, only because he wrote feature articles for the Times of Saigon, edited by my father,
2 March 2018

Musing Lightly on the Issues of Translation

Recently, I have come across a significant number of Bangladeshi online journals, diligently invested in literatures in
2 March 2018

A melancholic, yet soothing read

Through her poetry anthology 'Elegiac Songs', Eeshita Azad does a wonderful job at describing the several stages of love, loss, joy and grief. The elegies reflect the contemporary style of her writing. The emotions conveyed in her poems are raw and presented without any sugar-coating. The book starts with a brilliant opening piece that grips the readers from the get-go.
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From Ekushey to International Mother Language Day and Beyond

Like every landmark day of every other country, Bangladesh's Ekushey February, or the 21st of February, 1952, has its roots decades
23 February 2018

Marginality, Borders and Existential Refugee-hood in the Chhitmahal

At this moment, when thousands of Rohingya refugees are sheltering in Bangladesh, the word 'refugee' gains new significance in the
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Remembering Professor Ahsanul Haque

We loved and respected Professor Ahsanul Haque as a teacher. He taught us in the Department of English, University of Dhaka, in the
23 February 2018

Refugees in the Public Imagination: The Conference that brought out Gripping Tales of (Dis)location and (Dis)placement

Refugee, migration and relocation have played prominent roles in literature and public spheres alike. In recent times for Bangladesh, it
23 February 2018
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