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.
12 May 2017

Islam in Performance: Contemporary Plays from South Asia

As its title suggests, this is a collection of plays from South Asia which deal with the social and political performance of Islam in the
12 May 2017

Religion, Diaspora and the Politics of a Homing Desire

Let me dedicate my inaugural musing in this page to the writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora spread all over the world; after all, I
12 May 2017

Is Feminism a Sell-out? Andi Zeisler's In-depth Analysis of Modern Day Feminism

Last women's day, I saw many statuses on my news feed preaching many different things.
10 May 2017

Tagore’s memories with Nagor

From 1891-1901 Tagore was continuously in Bengal. He used to come in Naogaon’s Patisar to observe the estate’s condition till 1937. His grandfather Prince Dwarkanath Tagore bought this estate in 1830. Actually to look after that estate Tagore came to Patisar in 1891.
8 May 2017

Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum

This remarkable book records a unique feat. In sequenced essays, its many contributors led by their mastermind...
5 May 2017

Rabindranath and the Question of Nationalism

To read Rabindranath Tagore's lectures on Nationalism delivered in 1916 in Japan and in America is to feel that he positively detested it.
5 May 2017

Visva-Bharati: A Civil Public Space for All Ages

All of us are products of our times – but while most of us are carried on time's shoulders only a few are able to carry time on theirs.
5 May 2017

My Tent of Hymns

Our house rules required us siblings to sit before our father every morning for a session on the literary classics.
5 May 2017

Living and dying by the code

“How many governments have fallen,” the prince had gone on, “And how many kingdoms have been swept from the face of the earth, and Orosh is still standing.”
4 May 2017

Times Food Guide Kolkata 2014

The Times of India Guides are targeted at both Local Residents, and Domestic and International Tourists.
30 April 2017

Extreme Food - What to Eat When Your Life Depends on it...

"There's no getting away from it; i've eaten some pretty extreme things in my time - live tarantulas, raw goat testicles, elephant dung,
30 April 2017

Our Lifeline

Professor Anwarul Karim, a noted educationist and researcher, is best known to the people within and outside the country as a very
30 April 2017

Weaved through history

Publisher: Picador Publications Date of Publication: July 2016. Price: 6.99 GBP
30 April 2017

The Power of Humour

Fun, pun, humor and satire are what characterize most of Syed Manzoorul Islam's works and his newly published Bichitra Swader Galpa(2017)ceases to be an exception.
30 April 2017

A Prisoner of Memories

I do not really know. I never really thought I would or could write. The first piece I wrote was of course some old Grimm Brothers' fairy
28 April 2017

In Her Blue

A copper coloured dog bit her
28 April 2017

Memories Are

Dazzling diamond,
28 April 2017

“Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness”

Sylvia Plath indeed died memorably as foreshadowed in a poem written in the final months of her life.
27 April 2017

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat

Women of the World tells this story of personal and professional struggle against the dramatic backdrop of war, super-power rivalry and
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