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.

One of our own

This was 1973. Bangladesh had been born only about two years before. I was on my way back to Dhaka after attending a seminar in Belgrade, capital of the then Yugoslavia.
25 November 2016

SUDHANGSHU WON’T GO

From ransacked temples and torched ancestral homestead,
18 November 2016

AND SO THIS LONG EXILE

Two pieces of roti or a red earthen plateful
18 November 2016

The flawed brilliance of Bob Dylan

Ever since he appeared on the New York folk scene, presenting himself as an anonymous exile from a place of no distinct identity – “My name it means nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from it's called the Midwest” – Bob Dylan has worked to elude definition.
18 November 2016

Dhaka Lit Fest 2016: VS Naipaul raises the curtains

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul inaugurates the Dhaka Literary Festival, with this the three-day festival kicks off at the Bangla Academy premises.
17 November 2016

A Black Diamond and Shayista Khan

Ihave always been intrigued by the historical novel. Some of it is composed around real historical figures, events, and locations,
13 November 2016

The Fall of the Ottomans

The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire - one of the greatest epics of the First World War, from bestselling historian Eugene Rogan
13 November 2016

Mad Genius: A Manifesto for Entrepreneurs

This is a manifesto about ideas. Big ideas, small ideas, and outlandish ideas. Ideas that innovate, ideas that disrupt markets, and especially ideas that irritate. More than ideas, though, Mad Genius is about how ideas are born and the role they play in entrepreneurial thinking.
13 November 2016

Tale of successful individuals and communities

It has always seemed to me that nonfiction books are not as popular in this part of the world as their fiction counterparts. By this I mean both how nonfiction does not seem to be as visible in bookstores, and also how there does not seem to be that many people writing nonfiction.
13 November 2016

Nobel laureate VS Naipaul to inaugurate Dhaka Literary Festival Nov 17

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul is coming to Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka Literary Festival that will be held at the Bangla Academy on November 17-19.
13 November 2016

A Sojourn in Time

My long desired visit to Meghalaya this year in fact pushed me back to the landscape of the days we spent here taking refuge in 1971
11 November 2016

Meeting Liz

“No need to pay, I like you enough to give a free night,” Liz said to me.
11 November 2016

Suspense around Every Corner

If you are searching for a good book to pass time, or have a knack for suspense with hints of romance here and there, then I have the book for you.
9 November 2016

When expectations are limitless

Whenever I lay buried in a fat volume written by a long 'extinct' writer, the great minds of today often ask me, “Why are you reading that?
6 November 2016

A portrayal of different stages of life

Short stories by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, are a veritable delight to read.
6 November 2016

A study on corporate social responsibility

To use a hackneyed expression, times change. As has for the world of corporate business practice.
6 November 2016

Nothing is Lost

He watched from his window as the seasons changed. There was no yearning in his gaze, just a weary observer looking through glass
4 November 2016

VERNAL VISUAL: MELBOURNE DIURNAL

The diurnal and the nocturnal gyrations of the earth, the magnetic and gravitational attraction and repulsion of the celestial spheres
4 November 2016

Into the Heart of Bengal

If literary delights are more to the taste than culinary, George Thompson englishes the improvised songs of the palky-bearers taking
4 November 2016

A New YA Fantasy Series Worth a Quick Dive

I was introduced to the Summoner series in a time when I was craving to read and delve into a new world with very little time to spare.
2 November 2016
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