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.

An endearing, predictable portrayal of Calcutta life

Amit Chaudhuri writes on nothing in particular. His novels scarcely have any plot. They are written in a relaxed manner, with almost each line containing delightful descriptions that are meant to be read slowly, in leisure.
13 May 2015

Can there be a virtual poetry revival?

The amount of poetry on the net is simply staggering. All the great and popular poems we have – or ought to have – read are a mouse click away.
8 May 2015

Reporting on Dissent

Amidst the endless contest for power, every nation-state is beset with insurgencies. A casualty in these conflicts is often the freedom of thought and expression.
8 May 2015

OUTLANDISH

I miss my unborn child
8 May 2015

TAZRIN FASHIONS, LTD.

She believed she was about thirty
8 May 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE

This week we welcome back the ever-prolific poet and academic Kaiser Haq tracing lines of connection between the wireless and the lyrical.
8 May 2015

Cat and Mouse By Gunter Grass

I bought a copy of Cat and Mouse by Gunter Grass (1927—2015) around four years ago from Aziz Super Market, Dhaka and while going through the moving novel Gunter Grass seemed to me very close to Victor Hugo in terms of characterization.
3 May 2015

Bangladesh-er-Swadhinota Sangrame Shilpishomaj By Biren Shome

IT'S not often you come across artists writing on artists.
3 May 2015

The Fall of the House of Usher By Edgar Allan Poe

CRAVING for some spinal tingling horror story? How about some classic Edgar Allen Poe Gothic Fiction that will leave you scared and confused?
3 May 2015

Q&A with Farah Ghuznavi: The Writer's Wilderness Survival Kit

Should a writer write to please the reader or himself/herself?
25 April 2015

THE KERALA JOURNAL

The alarm rings at the crack of dawn, but my body and mind fight.
24 April 2015

A TRIBUTE

Sadaat Hasan Manto, one of the most prolific short-story writers to emerge from the subcontinent, described the murder of a 'Muslim bastard' during the riots in his most famous short story 'Toba Tek Singh'.
24 April 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. (Khalil Gibran)
24 April 2015

Political Parties in Bangladesh

I congratulate Prof. Dr. Raunaq Jahan for her book Political Parties in Bangladesh- Challenges of Democratization. I would also like to
19 April 2015

Gender and Development By Janet Momsen

GENDER and Development by Janet Momsen (2009) is an empirical study considering position of women in developing countries.
19 April 2015

Northanger Abbey

NORTHANGER Abbey is a novel, written by Jane Austen. The story is set in early 19th Century England.
19 April 2015

Gunter Grass in Dhaka

One day in November 1986, Dr Shamim Khan – friend, colleague, and at that time an assistant professor of International Relations at
17 April 2015

What Must Be Said

Why have I kept silent, held back so long,
17 April 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE

Today's SLR is dedicated to the German novelist, social critic, artist and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass who died on 13th April. He was 87.
17 April 2015

The Fine Line between Plagiarism and Influence

Kaavya Viswanathan's novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got a Life” is a prime example of plagiarism.
15 April 2015
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