Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
News
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 / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News
Solitude
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Fiction / Radiant deluge
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
Poetry / Scorching silence
20 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / To pick or not to pick a bone
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Fiction / When ‘Little Women’ turns to murder: Katie Bernet reimagines a classic
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
The Shelf / The quiet grief of becoming ordinary
19 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Shelf
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
The Shelf
Alt-lit / What you can’t remember will definitely hurt you: Antimemes and qntm’s Antimemetics SCP saga
How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026, 17:39 PM
Interview / Kishwar Chowdhury on Bangali culture and culinary storytelling
11 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Event Report / Secrets, silences, and storytelling: Inside the launch of Razia Sultana’s new anthology
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
On April 25, The Reading Circle celebrated its 20th anniversary with the launch of Stories My Grandma (Never) Told Me at Ajo Idea Space in Gulshan-2. Published by Nymphea Publication, the anthology brings together stories exploring family secrets, memory, and women’s histories.
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Illuminating the past and the present: The 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners announced
5 May 2026, 21:50 PM
The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced, recognising publications, publication staff, individual journalists, and authors across 23 award categories for journalism, reporting, criticism, photography, authorship, and overall excellence in their fields. The winners for each category were announced on May 4,2026 via live broadcasts on the Pulitzer Prizes website and YouTube channel.
Creative nonfiction / Growing up with a new nation: The Dhaka we once knew
28 March 2026, 03:42 AM
Creative non-fiction
Children of 1972–73 came of age alongside Bangladesh itself. In Azimpur’s close‑knit colony, a telephone became a neighbourhood lifeline, television was a shared ritual, and the Buriganga was our afternoon escape.
FLASH FICTION / Chand raat at Mohakhali
20 March 2026, 20:20 PM
Essay / The Cosmere is getting adapted: Here is where to start reading
14 March 2026, 21:02 PM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / Sweetened ice and other lessons in kindness
14 March 2026, 01:59 AM
Essay / A meaningless world: Sartre, Camus, Waliullah, and Badal Sircar
14 March 2026, 01:48 AM
CREATIVE NONFICTION / The devil wears Maria B
7 March 2026, 02:13 AM
The shelf / 6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
ESSAY / Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
Sarbojaya and Surabala
Written words last forever. Women and children in masterly works of fiction are endearing characters. The endearment lasts a lifetime.
29 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Stories for the Summer
It's been an embarrassingly long time since I sat down to write something.
27 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Words and phrases you won’t believe Shakespeare invented
The English language wouldn’t be the same without Shakespeare. He is credited with inventing over 1700 common words and phrases we still use today
23 April 2016, 15:31 PM
We Are At Odds
Time changes
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
NIGHTMARE
When did these dead people awake from their graves?
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Rising of the Dead
I stepped inside the house through the drawing room doors. The smell of death assailed my senses. The smell was stale – all pervasive.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Wisdom of a Revivalist
Sri Chaitanya Deb (1486-1533) was an interesting and charismatic personality of the 16th century in Bengal, Assam, Orissa and across the eastern India.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Tribute to a scholar
They remember him as a loving husband and as an inspiring father. Other articles are written by his relatives, colleagues, students and friends in great admiration. In their portrayal, Prof. Rehman is illustrated as an exceptionally gentle, compassionate, amiable and vastly knowledgeable person.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Story of Quarter Century of Development
When Azizur Rahman Khan writes something on the economy of Bangladesh, one needs to take note.
17 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Poet Syed Shamsul Haq flown to London for treatment
Eminent litterateur Syed Shamsul Haq is flown to UK for treatment as he has been suffering from critical lungs disease.
16 April 2016, 12:49 PM
I Need to Believe
In the name of justice...
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Tale of a Slave
It often happens nowadays
That I do not find my head
Spine, is now a distant memory!
A question crops up constantly, at birth
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
By the end of July 1907, news reaches Atiya through a student named Parmeshwar Lal that Iqbal's patriotic songs published in Makhzan have become so popular that they are being sung in the whole of northern India: 'houses, streets, alleys resounded with Iqbal's national songs, which created a feeling of nationalism unknown in India before.'
15 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Still struggling after 1971…..
MR Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
A Fugitive's Pendulous Mind
This monumental novel speaks of the phenomena that can persuade people to commit crimes, the inner torment that forces people to burn with a feeling of guilt and the ultimate expiation offenders go through while playing cat and mouse with their conscience.
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
The Lighter Side of History
I am not sure if I can call it the lighter side of history, or, more appropriately, history off the beaten track...
10 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Driftwood
Her body lies like
Driftwood on the sand
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Bereavement
Things were not so rosy at first,
But soon they were straightened out.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Iqbal and Atiya Begum
Ten years after Iqbal is born in Sialkot in undivided India, a girl named Atiya is born thousands of miles away in Istanbul. Just as Iqbal's father ran a business in Sialkot, Atiya's father Hasan Ali Fyzee (1827–1903) ran a business in that Turkish metropolis.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM
My Days in National Book Centre
Fazle Rabbi had a long professional career; almost twenty years in Bangla Academy which is considered a great centre for Bangla culture and literature.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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