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.

Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense

Blue Venom and Forbidden Incense are translations of two novellas, Neel Dongshon and Nishidhho Loban, by the eminent Bangladesh
16 June 2017

Homing into Darkness

As I see it, Zia Haider Rahman debut novel In the Light of What We Know (2014) turns on a high voltage light bulb of knowledge to
16 June 2017

Inheritance

“… they shall inherit the earth.”
16 June 2017

Santahar

No, I've never been to Santa Fe.
16 June 2017

Outcasts on a Mission

Six of Crows is the one of the fewest books I have read so far that is actually worth the hype and high ratings surrounding it.
14 June 2017

Maach Khor

“That one is empty. The ribs are those giant bones on a full grown ilish, ilish with eggs”, thought Gamcha Miya, staring at Harun's skeletal boy with a ballooned stomach.
9 June 2017

Valediction

The day of our last parting, the rain refused to let up, pelting the window
9 June 2017

A Wild Kingdom

Shravan: the beginning of monsoon. For many days, the rain clouds had dispersed their burden. From the vicinity of Nada or Lobtulia, or from the vantage point of Grant Sahib's banyan tree, one could look in any direction and see only a verdant sea of fledgling reeds.
9 June 2017

RAIN, RAIN

Sudden panic sends colorful homebound crowds –
9 June 2017

GRISHMA, BARSHA

The azan goes
9 June 2017

Oi Ashe Oi Oti Bhairob Horoshe

There, there they come— monsoonal clouds—
9 June 2017

Tagore and Rainy Days

Emon dine tare bola jay! On a dreamy day of endless showers, a sunless day of dense clouds, one could share the kind of mystery with
9 June 2017

Oxford Dictionary Review: The verdict will surprise you!

For some reason, nobody approaches you when you're reading The Oxford English Dictionary.
7 June 2017

Arundhati Roy releases first novel in 20 years

Arundhati Roy's eagerly-awaited second novel goes on sale, two decades after her prize-winning debut "The God of Small Things" propelled her to global fame and launched her career as an outspoken critic of injustice in her native India.
6 June 2017

Confession

I never carried a rose
2 June 2017

How Poets Sleep

Our minds don't stop,
2 June 2017

How Poets Sleep

Our minds don't stop,
2 June 2017

To a Gunman

Like the mysterious rise of your enemy's language,
2 June 2017

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

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
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