Fiction / Sahara
29 August 2026
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Fiction
I have not eaten today. Not on purpose. I will eat later. I simply have not thought of it yet.
Poetry / The finality of nostalgia
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Dinner time and death
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
23 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / A novel of radical softness
20 August 2026
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Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / Cooking up heat
20 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Event Report / In Transit: The Third Annual Slam Poetry at North South University
19 August 2026
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News
Essay / Poet Shamsur Rahman’s drama translation: Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Marco Millions’
15 August 2026
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Essay
Interview / In conversation with Sonia Bahl: Author of ‘Eighteen Inches Apart’
What becomes increasingly evident across Bahl’s three novels is her sustained fascination with the emotional significance of almosts and maybes.
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.
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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The Shelf
You know when the sky trades its brightness for a low, silver hue, and you wrap your fingers tightly around your tea, seeking that small, steady pulse of warmth. This is the essence of healing fiction. Often rooted in the Japanese concept of iyashikei, these stories focus on the quiet spirit through small, everyday moments. You may have already heard of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop or We’ll Prescribe You a Cat. While those popular favourites have opened a door for many, there are a few other tales worth the read.
Reflections / In the age of AI allegations
13 June 2026
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
Valiant freedom fighters of the soil
Of the few books written in English on the liberation struggle and the war of independence of Bangladesh, some cover either a specific
25 September 2016
Seafarers
The sea holds the ship like one might hold a gemstone, lightly gripped between the tips of its forefingers, stuttering. It tries to be
23 September 2016
Awaking
I shall be waiting for you
23 September 2016
Are you a mere portrait painted on canvas?
Are you a mere portrait painted on canvas?
23 September 2016
Smells of a Frozen Fire
So weird a moon is now up,
23 September 2016
If Fitzgerald wrote The Devil Wears Prada
The bald-headed Nigel in The Devil Wears Prada says to Andrea Sachs, “You think this is just a magazine?
21 September 2016
Flash Point
An explosive yet poignant account of the lives of those who walk the red carpet and those who photograph them.
18 September 2016
Purple Hibiscus
Purple Hibiscus is set in Nigeria at a time when the country was on a verge of a military takeover.
18 September 2016
The underwater wonders revealed
It was more than 15O years from now that Captain Nemo travelled across the seven seas in his submarine named Nautilus when no one could think of an underwater ship in his wildest dream.
18 September 2016
Quest for knowing and understanding Bangladesh
This book traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages. History of Bangladesh: A Subcontinental Civilisation has been written over a period of twenty two years by Abul Maal A. Muhith, a former high civil servant and currently Finance Minister of Bangladesh.
18 September 2016
Hope
The pale colour of an exhausted day
16 September 2016
The Blackbird
On the beautiful wings of the Blackbird,
16 September 2016
Ephemeral Love
The news took us all by great surprise. Some of us were shocked, and others were very upset. One friend Mahbub, who
16 September 2016
Nazrul's Immortal Works
The resourceful poems and lyrics in this anthology uphold human dignity, religious harmony, truth, beauty, pain and love. His poems
11 September 2016
A Tribute to Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was one of the most charismatic public figures. She was also probably the most enigmatic and intensely private in her
11 September 2016
Women Empowerment in Bangladesh of the Forest, Tree & Grassroots
The issue of emancipating women raises obvious questions: Is there a final point; indeed, is the starting point similar across countries;
11 September 2016
IMMORTAL RABINDRANATH
Rabindranath keeps awake by you every day...
9 September 2016
Mamunur Rashid's Oeuvre
Many of the theatre persons of Bangladesh left the country in 1971 for Calcutta and had an active exposure to the stage productions of the city.
9 September 2016
The Allusion
My paradise is regained...
9 September 2016
The Investigative Report
The dead body of a seemingly unknown young man...
2 September 2016
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