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.

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

Searching

A pebble ran to a beach in search of a home
17 November 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dhaka on a sad day

With pedal click the rickshaw's here
10 November 2017

In Memoriam

Some memories like unexploded grenades
3 November 2017

History is Muse

The muse offers herself in full glory;
3 November 2017

The Listener of Stories

My mother says I have always been a quick learner; I can remember her stories well. I can retell them in front of people, copying her
3 November 2017

Poetry with Emily Dickinson

Recently, the Fifth Amherst Poetry Festival, held in tandem with the Emily Dickinson Museum, had downtown Amherst abuzz with
3 November 2017

Edward W. Said: An Anniversary Tribute

Edward W. Said (1 November, 1935 - 25 September 2003) – former Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia
3 November 2017

Flashback

The idea of this poem came to Shahidul in 2012, soon after his Sussex MA dissertation on Modernism, where Eliot was one of his
27 October 2017

Was Marx Really Right?

Readers familiar with Terry Eagleton's work would have no doubt from the title of his Why Marx Was Right that it would offer a strong
27 October 2017

October (1927): A Historical and Visual Retromania

Let's imagine some frames from the 80s or 90s - a small group of activists watching a film in their semi-dark Communist party office;
27 October 2017
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