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
Learning To Live and Laugh
When people we love meet their ends through chronic illnesses or sudden accidents, we find a way amid the misery to accept the circumstances – circumstances that were out of our hands.
28 October 2015
A tale of slavery on Caribbean islands
When I read The Book of Night Women by Marlon James a few years ago, it took away my peace of mind for some days with its terrific
25 October 2015
A historical fiction on the liberation war of Bangladesh
The book Dus k Dawn And Liberation is compelling reading. This is the ultimate test of any book, fact, fiction or fusion of both.
25 October 2015
Memoirs of a nonconformist
There are people who seem to be genetically inclined to act like Mary's contrary lamb. Kamal Siddiqui, a former civil servant who had
25 October 2015
Two Songs
I pray not for you to guard me in danger time and again
23 October 2015
SLEEP
Whatever bravado I might show to the world, only I know how greedy I am for a night's – even a single night's – sleep. I have read an encyclopaedic amount of literature about insomnia, I have heard lullabies in thirteen different languages, I have tried lavender aromatherapy and temple massage techniques.
23 October 2015
Tales of Tagore in Latin America
Tagore's reception outside India is quite an interesting subject. He was an insatiate globetrotter who had travelled vastly on both sides
18 October 2015
Love story packed with passion and vengeance
Wuthering Heights is one of the best-known novels in the history of English literature. This novel tells a love story packed with passion
18 October 2015
Elegant, graceful, and heart-warming stories
The book, “Family Furnishings”, is the most recent collection of short stories written by Alice Munro and includes 24 stories written
18 October 2015
The Power of a Poet
Only poets can heroically sacrifice the golden throne
16 October 2015
SLEEP
Sleep is an allergy, a reaction against the day's useless welfare programmes. It is alright for people to have no memory of dreams in their sleep, but to have no memory of sleeping is a nightmare.
16 October 2015
Rejected Bestsellers on the Rebound
If you ever feel like you've made a wrong decision in life, just think about the 12 publishers who rejected Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone before finally the 8-year-old daughter of Bloomsbury's editor demanded to read the rest of the manuscript her father had shown her.
14 October 2015
Man Booker Prize 2015: Marlon James wins for A Brief History of Seven Killings
Jamaican author Marlon James wins the Man Booker Prize for his novel inspired by the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the 1970s.
14 October 2015
Reform for Economic Development
This book is a build-up on the theories and experiences of a patriot, teacher and business thinker. Constructed in
11 October 2015
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
The book, “The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East”, is a popular history book by Oxford
11 October 2015
Rabindranath: Ashukh Bishukh
Rabindranath: Ashukh Bishukh is an outside-the-box but well-written book on Rabindranath Tagore by Mihirkanti
11 October 2015
Diagnosis of a Half Crazy Moon
Local time is now twelve past one
9 October 2015
Syed Akram Hossain - The Making of Modern Literary Studies in Bangladesh
Very few books ever fail to draw us into an ever deeper contemplation of literature, no matter how many times we turn to them. Rabindranath's Novel: Patterns of Thought and Representation ([1977] 2014) by Syed Akram Hossain belongs to that slim, selective canon.
9 October 2015
Nobel laureate for Literature Alexievich: Exposing stark Soviet realities
Svetlana Alexievich, this year's Nobel laureate for literature, says her approach is to let "human voices speak for themselves".
9 October 2015
Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Literature prize
Belarusian writer and journalist Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel Prize for literature.
8 October 2015
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