FICTION / Body Selim
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Fiction
We know Body Selim. If you look around, you’ll find that after this incident, many people came to know him through the newspapers.
Poetry / The aviary within
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Poetry
Essay / When fanfiction swapped out fans for publishing deals
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Aruna Chakravarti’s ghosts don’t just scare, they remember
16 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Reviews
Poetry / Noboborsho
15 April 2026, 16:44 PM
Poetry
Reflections / Boishakh in fragments: Food, storms, and memory
14 April 2026, 18:03 PM
Reflection
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
News
Essay / Rabindranath Tagore and the evolving spirit of Pohela Baishakh
13 April 2026, 23:12 PM
Essay
Not just child’s play: Bengal’s rhymes as cultural memory
13 April 2026, 20:12 PM
Culture
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
The six-week intensive program offers beginners and budding writers mentor-led guidance in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, focusing on Bangladeshi cultural narratives
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
On the chilly afternoon of January 10, Bookworm Bangladesh, in collaboration with Voices Shaping Society, hosted the book launch of The July Resolve, a collection of 36 narratives that depicts the strength and struggles of people from all walks of life during the Monsoon Revolution of 2024.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Fiction
The scramble was almost instantaneous and without mercy. Men in freshly tailored panjabis—stitched for the next morning's prayers—threw elbows for the simple right to go back home.
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
FICTION / Little Grey - Part 2
21 February 2026, 01:27 AM
THE SHELF / If characters from different books went on a date
12 February 2026, 00:00 AM
POETRY / Potatoes are burning in the fryer
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
THE SHELF / 5 books to read as a performative male
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A Vampire in Gulshan
It was 3 AM. He couldn't sleep (he took sleeping pills but they didn't work). He was thinking of Fatin. Thursday night they had partied
2 June 2017, 18:00 PM
A writer's writer: Akhtaruzzaman Elias
His style and content both grew organically out of the soil of the world he built in his works.
2 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Amay Nahe Go Bhalobasho..
Dearest, even if you won't love me
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
The One Who Shows the Way
An unknown Darvish arrived in town that dawn. People rose euphoric, as if rising from the churning of the sea; they were everywhere-
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam 1899-1976
Kazi Nazrul Islam was enticed by the challenge of writing a (Song of Separation) in a Bhatiyali tune. River Padma is,
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Reminiscing Shanchita
As a child, I was not an ardent fan of the "Rebel Poet". I was made to memorise “Bidrohi” before I started going to school; and, I can
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Understanding Nazrul and His World
How did Nazrul perceive the world literature of his time? Was he widely read, and did he interact with the literary ideas shaping
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Thinking about Nazrul in Cuba: Love and Revolution
I visited Havana, Cuba, in January this year. I was invited there to give a lecture on the significance of Fidel Castro and the reception of
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Kazi Nazrul Islam and the October Revolution
On 25 October 1917 in Russia – 7 November in India – the Bolsheviks led an armed insurrection against Petrograd. News of the
26 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Portraits of Bengali Life in a Bygone Era
Light, heavy, or both? History offers the reader a choice among all three, or a combination of them.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Still Young at Heart and Eloquent
At 80, which he reached on May 19, Hasnat Abdul Hye can look back, and certainly feel a sense of pride, accomplishment, and joy for a productive life, where he has not only been a leading bureaucrat of the country, but also a prolific author of distinction.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Karagarer Rojnamcha: A Jail Diary with a Difference
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's entire life bears testimony to his lasting love and passion for Bangladesh and Bengalis.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Traversing Cohen
I want to write a letter to a woman from a time now past.
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Overseasoned
Digging his grave in a mine,
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Tales of Everlasting Endearment
Women and children in masterly works of fiction tend to be endearing. From Bengal to Russia, the endearment lasts a lifetime;
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
MADE IN AMERICA!
Though times have changed, in the several visits I made to the US over the last twenty years, one headache has remained constant –
19 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Portrait of the poet as young woman
Her hair
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Aphorisms of Humayun Azad
Mohammad Shafiqul Islam's book of translation, Aphorisms of Humayun Azad appears to be almost as pithy and barbed as the famous
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Their Lives Written with Blood
Published as early as 1978, Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor is an acclaimed fictionalization of prostitution in post-Liberation War
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
Nineteen Thirty-Four
A motorcar
12 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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