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
Kafkaesque Thought
Franz Kafka is an icon of 20th century literature. The Metamorphosis, a novella written in 1912, is considered as his seminal work of fiction.
20 November 2015
SUNDOWN
As had been happening to him a lot lately, especially during a long wait, he dozed off. It occurred to him that he could not keep his...
20 November 2015
Digital Love
The past few decades have seen remarkable changes people's romantic lives. Even in Bangladesh, where families fixing matches was the social norm for decades...
18 November 2015
The Horror! The Horror!
IN 1975, when Chinua Achebe accused Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and harshly deprecated the image of Africa as portrayed in...
15 November 2015
SHABDAGHAR
Shabdaghar, a monthly magazine of culture and literature centers on the glorious treasures of Bangla art, culture and literature.
15 November 2015
Beyond a river's lament
So many writers in the field of literature (particularly poetry) from any country have associated (or tried to) nature with human emotion
15 November 2015
MARCHING HUMANITY
They are walking altogether - dragging their feet
13 November 2015
DEMONS
This is an excerpt of Nesar Nadim's début novel "Demons". The book is available in the bookstores and at rokomari.com
13 November 2015
In remembrance of Humayun Ahmed, the wizard of words
Humayun Ahmed is the most celebrated writer of contemporary time and one of the best story tellers in the history of Bangla literature.
13 November 2015
A novel on war time rape victims
A SECRET OF A WAR BABY, written by Shahazada Basunia is a novel which mainly focuses on the war time rape victims who made their supreme sacrifices for the sake of achieving independence.
8 November 2015
Mind revealing micro-fictions
Anwarul Kabir's latest compilation of fifty two micro-fictions Mind Reader got published in Ekushey Boi Mela of 2015.
8 November 2015
Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift's Allegoric Masterpiece
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the top-ranking English writers of the eighteenth century. He is widely known as a satirist.
8 November 2015
Haruki Murakami's “After Dark”
Haruki Murakami is a popular contemporary Japanese writer with impressive credentials. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages...
8 November 2015
Strange motivations
I'm grateful to the novelist James Meek for introducing me to a new critical term. Reviewing Jonathan Franzen'sPurity (“From Wooden to Plastic”, LRB, 24/09/15), Meek writes that the first appearance of Leila Helou“is couched in the leaden terms of the Unaccountably
6 November 2015
FREE WRITING
I have been asked to write a few words about my experience, with the purpose of offering inspiration to young Bangladeshis. But my personal history seems to me so particular as to be of little use to anybody: for one thing, although I was born in Bangladesh, I grew up mainly in the West.
6 November 2015
Buddhism in Bangladesh since 2nd century BCE
WITH the current occurrence of religious intolerance and rise of fundamentalism, the publication of Buddhist Heritage of Bangladesh is a welcome relief.
1 November 2015
Spotlight on an essence of Bangladesh's culture
It goes without saying that rising globalism in this age of information technology has had, is having, and will continue to have for the foreseeable future...
1 November 2015
Finish the Book and Die
I first came across the term “Pulling a Robert Jordan” while reading a 2011 New Yorker essay on George R.R. Martin and the treatment some ...
30 October 2015
THE SECOND WIFE
In our family my maternal grandmother was known as Choti Amma. She was indeed my nana's second wife. The first wife or Buri Amma...
30 October 2015
The genius making sense with his 'nonsense'
In remembrance of Sukumar Ray, the great Bangalee poet, story writer and playwright Bangla literature will forever be indebted to.
30 October 2015
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