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.

Bohemians and Others

Polyphony of expressions, identity, skill and perspective are the dominant links that connect the books by Khademul Islam, Sayeeda T
24 March 2017

ARCADIA ON THE JALANGI

The Jalangiriver snakes across Bengal, as changeable as it is beautiful and impervious to the political divisions that would separate the eastern arm of its mother river Ganga from the western.
24 March 2017

Sukumar's Myth and Magic

Silly rhymes, nonsensical verses, absurd characters - that's how Sukumar Ray introduced poetry in to my life with his book Abol Tabol (Rhymes without Reasons), an amazing collection of classic Bengali nonsense poetry.
23 March 2017

A Surprisingly Not Overdone Fantasy-Romance

A few weeks ago, flipping through TV channels brought me to Beautiful Creatures.
22 March 2017

Abul Mansur Ahmad: A Versatile Genius

It was in a most turbulent period of the history of Bengal that Abul Mansur Ahmad fought hard against social prejudice and religious bigotry.
17 March 2017

New Books

Akshata Ayna
12 March 2017

In the face of death

The Plague, a philosophical novel, written by Albert Camus is considered one of the greatest novels of 20th century. Camus was an
12 March 2017

A girl's passage from tears to happiness

JANE Eyre is one of the finest novels by the English fictionist Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). This novel tells us the story of an orphan
12 March 2017

Job-Makers in the making

AUTHOR: MD. SABUR KHAN
12 March 2017

The Poet and the Emperor

The Emperor became disillusioned &frustrated
10 March 2017

Kamal Chowdhury's soul-searching odyssey

A unique voice that combines passion and fire with utmost discipline, Kamal Chowdhury has been active in Bangladesh's poetry scene
10 March 2017

Language and the Presidency

I ended my last piece with a promise not to waste any more words on the self-publicist and arch-troll Milo Yiannopoulos. I break that
10 March 2017

Penetrative Tales on Social Aberrations

As far as the history of modern Bengali literature is concerned, references to Abul Mansur Ahmed's name come up as an inevitable
5 March 2017

Men-Women Relationship in Nineteenth Century Bengal

The story begins like this. Dr. Bilkis Rahman read the autobiography of noted author Mir Mosharraf Hossain and discovered a rosy
5 March 2017

Of Paths and Walkers

“WHAT is great in the realm of art might not be equally acceptable in the realm of morality; similarly what morality finds laudable
5 March 2017

New Books

Payraband kahini is a book of Puthi Sahitto (a special genre of literature written in a mixed vocabulary drawn from Bangla, Arabic,
5 March 2017

TO RABINDRANATH

You're still fresh in my mind,
3 March 2017

Lonely Star

Like a lonely star in the heaven
3 March 2017

NUGGETS FROM THE KOLKATA LITERARY MEET 2017

I have always been fascinated by the person and work of the great poet Javed Akhtar and so I am delighted to have a chance to hear
3 March 2017

Aphorisms of Humayun Azad

Aphorisms of Humayun Azad is the translation of Humayun Azad's groundbreaking book Prabachanguchchha. The
26 February 2017
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