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
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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
Shiksha
Although most of us know Nurul Islam Nahid as the minister of the Ministry of Education, very few know that he always had a knack
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Manabjameen: Untilled Earth
Set in the troubled last quarter of the twentieth century, Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Manabjameen is an expansive saga that charts the
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Yoga for Dummies
This revised edition of Yoga For Dummies provides 25 percent new and revised content, presenting new concepts for the yoga
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
In this age of post 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Johnny Depp fans, very few people are unaware of Washington Irving's tale of fear and
31 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
A convergence of religions through Dharma, not swords. Friendship as an expression of political resistance.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Bucket List: The Kerala Journal
I am up early today. It's a brilliant morning and I can hear the chirping of new birds.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
In search of a creative community
While I'm editing my novel, I find it helpful to read something entirely unrelated. Young Romantics by Daisy Hay, subtitled The Shelleys, Byron and other tangled lives (Bloomsbury 2011), tells the story of a group of radical English writers over a period of a dozen years in the early nineteenth century.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Night It Rained
The wind builds up its frenzy.
The clouds rob my sky.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Early Days
The May sun scorches Krishnachuras blaze The mind is moribund.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
First Kadam
You have gifted me rainy day's First Kadam flower, O my beloved I offer you songs of monsoon rain.
29 May 2015, 18:00 PM
LAUGHING LIKE RAY'S CHILDREN
People my age are one of the last few generations that grew up in Dhaka without twenty-four hour television or the Internet. We would read.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Migrants
They had set sail in hope in dinghies or rickety boats,
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Dejection: A Sonnet
I would love to be proven wrong that day,
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
This week Shahpar Selim does a double take on a childhood favourite, reminding us that while we are ‘LOLing’ at the world around us (or in our computers), we must remember to laugh at ourselves too.
22 May 2015, 18:00 PM
WANT TO PLAY?
Grace MacBride and the other five partners of her software company, Monkeewrench, have created a new game titled “Serial Killer Detective'' where the good guy always catches the bad guy.
20 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Decoding Rooppur...
In the opening, the book printed by Madhyama Media and Publications points to the fact that publishers in this country – though slowly but are finally becoming skilled. Hat’s off to the publisher.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
Frog By Mo Yan
The pages are full of references to modern Chinese political history and its cultural and social practices.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is both a spiritual treatise and a decisive effort of ancient literature.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
The Last King in India: Wajid Ali Shah
AN affectionate biography of a much-maligned king who had the misfortune to be on the throne when the East India Company decided to usurp him.
17 May 2015, 18:00 PM
EDITOR’S NOTE
Here are the winners of our latest SLR writing competition.
15 May 2015, 18:00 PM
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