Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
News
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 / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News
Solitude
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Fiction / Radiant deluge
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Poetry / Scorching silence
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / To pick or not to pick a bone
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / When ‘Little Women’ turns to murder: Katie Bernet reimagines a classic
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
The Shelf
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Illuminating the past and the present: The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
5 May 2026, 21:50 PM
The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, recognising publications, publication staff, individual journalists, and authors across 23 award categories for journalism, reporting, criticism, photography, authorship, and overall excellence in their fields. The winners for each category were announced on May 4,2026 via live broadcasts on the Pulitzer Prizes website and YouTube channel.
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
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
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
Graphic novel ‘Mujib’ launched in English at Dhaka Lit Fest
After successful publications of the graphic novel on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangla, the English version of the first part of the novel series "Mujib" is unveiled at the Dhaka Lit Fest at Bangla Academy in Dhaka.
16 November 2017, 13:00 PM
A collection tinged with variety
Disconnect is an anthology comprised of 20 short stories, edited by Aadiyat Ahmad, Kazi Akib Bin Asad, Rumman R Kalam, and Zoheb Mashiur.
15 November 2017, 18:00 PM
BooK GanG
A person's best company is books. Even in today's world filled with tabs, kindles and smart phones, nothing can beat the magic of a real book in your hands. The scent coming from the pages of a new book is incomparable to anything.
15 November 2017, 18:00 PM
The story of a bat: Cricket in Rwanda
On October 28th, Rwanda will celebrate the opening of its first real and certainly grassiest cricket ground in the capital, Kigali. Brain
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
An Afternoon at Katabon Pet Shop
It took more than an hour for Rupa to reach her destination. After paying the fare she started walking past the pet shops in Katabon.
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Port of Tranquility
On a sun baked plateau, infused with the hue of stained blood and brown bread, caressed by the waves of the immortal spirit, which
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Dhaka on a sad day
With pedal click the rickshaw's here
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Catmoir
Cats are to be hated. And their whining, which some might lovingly define as meowing, is nothing but tiresome whimpering. At least
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
With Sukhu Mia across Bangladesh
Dogs usually live for some ten to thirteen years. Small sized breeds may live a little longer, but the bigger the size, the smaller the
10 November 2017, 18:00 PM
In Memoriam
Some memories like unexploded grenades
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
History is Muse
The muse offers herself in full glory;
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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