Event Report / Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
19 May 2026, 14:26 PM
News
The bilingual poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved, (Oitijjhya, 2026) by journalist, poet, and fiction writer Ehasan Mahamud was launched on Monday, May 18, at the Kabi Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room of Bangla Academy, Dhaka. The event was organised by Oitijjhya Publications and moderated by Mostafa Mushfiq.
Poetry / Bilet pherta
17 May 2026, 17:55 PM
Poetry
News Report / Amazon to end store access for legacy Kindle devices on May 20
17 May 2026, 17:29 PM
News
Event Report / Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
17 May 2026, 17:16 PM
News
Essay / Diverse articulations in Jibanananda, Rilke, Eliot, and Neruda
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Poetry / City of postcards
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
Poetry / A taxonomy of opinions
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
What to read / What we’re reading this week
14 May 2026, 00:00 AM
What to read
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
Thorns in My Quilt (Rupa Publications India, 2024) unfolds through address rather than disclosure. Written as a series of letters to her father, Mohua Chinappa’s memoir traces memory not as a sequence of events, but as an emotional inheritance shaped by silence, expectation, and the subtle negotiations that govern family life.
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
Interview / Faith, patriarchy, and resistance: Banu Mushtaq on ‘Heart Lamp’
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
NEWS REPORT / Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me secures 2026 NBCC Award, continues global recognition
28 March 2026, 17:07 PM
Celebrated author and activist Arundhati Roy’s 2025 memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me (Penguin, 2025) continues to solidify its place in the zeitgeist and its cultural impact well into 2026, with its recent win at this year’s US National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in the Autobiography category.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 PM
The exhibition reimagines the book as a tactile, textile based vessel for memory, currently on view at Alliance Française Dhaka from March 10-18, 2026.
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
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
6 Books to contextualise the present conflict in the Gulf
Through essays on sanctions, the US intervention, protest movements, and media framing, he argues that misrepresentation and political calculation have sustained a “long war” beyond the battlefield
1 March 2026, 21:07 PM
Kumu: Meye bela
The house in Bogura did not shout its presence. It stood quietly, as more than shelter, more than walls and roof.
28 February 2026, 00:29 AM
Benjamin Wood From early writing days to ‘Seascraper’ success
Benjamin Wood’s latest novel Seascraper (Scribner, 2025), longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025, is a tale of a young shrimp fisher Tom Flett who has an extraordinary expertise about sea and beaches.
28 February 2026, 00:24 AM
Unlearning you one syllable at a time
When your bright beaming dark eyes,
matched mine, locked like a stubborn vine,
28 February 2026, 00:18 AM
John Steinbeck and the art of bearing witness
At the heart of Steinbeck's literary oeuvre lies a profound empathy for the disenfranchised
27 February 2026, 18:00 PM
Ekushey Boi Mela 2026: How to buy books you will actually read
With Eid expenses around the corner, smart planning can help you pick books that matter
27 February 2026, 16:00 PM
Romance, radical hope, and the modern happily ever after
Few genres are as unapologetically optimistic as romance. At its core lies the Happily Ever After (HEA), a convention so fundamental that it often stands in for the genre itself.
27 February 2026, 00:05 AM
Dancing in the dark
The 10th anniversary of anything is a momentous milestone. Strapped in as we are on a rollercoaster through some very strange times, though, the journey of this humble little Ramadan ritual feels particularly fateful.
26 February 2026, 23:55 PM
In Dhaka, spring and pages bloom together
Amid mango blossoms and mild breezes, Ekushey Boi Mela reaffirms the permanence of paper in an age of fleeting screens
26 February 2026, 18:30 PM
An unintentional gatecrasher
Although The Wedding People deals with sensitive issues such as depression and suicide, it is done in a light-hearted and an endearingly humorous way.
25 February 2026, 16:24 PM
Bangla Academy announces 2025 Literary Award winners
PM Tarique Rahman to confer awards at Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2026 opening ceremony
23 February 2026, 17:10 PM
Two women, one language struggle
Just as Bengali women played an important role in the Liberation War, they also played a fearless role in the movement for the Bangla language before it, participating alongside men as fellow warriors.
21 February 2026, 23:24 PM
The ekushey filter
The Filter erases dialects, swaps backdrops, whitens skin, lifts pitch—an algorithm that functions as both beautician and censor.
21 February 2026, 19:54 PM
Little Grey - Part 2
As evening sets in and the stars begin to appear in the dark sky above the village, a sharp series of pops and bangs pierces through Xiaohui’s peace.
21 February 2026, 01:27 AM
The ways of love
A chipped teacup, warmed in my hands,
Is love when you stir in the honey, unasked,
21 February 2026, 01:23 AM
Four leaf clover
In cold evenings, when the forecaster
predicts a scatter of hail to fall
21 February 2026, 01:16 AM
Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
Even after the organisers and Bangla Academy offered a 55 percent subsidy on stall costs, a significant number of publishers maintained their decision to not participate.
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
Money and language: Transaction and tension
In addition to today’s transnational corporations and the global explosion of their advertisements, the works of William Shakespeare and Karl Marx keep teaching us a great deal about the relationship between money and language.
19 February 2026, 00:00 AM
5 books to help you wind down after your 9-to-5
After a workday full of tabs, pings, and “oh just a quick call,” your brain usually wants one of two things: something soft enough to sink into, or something sharp enough to cut through the fog. These 5 do both, in different ways, without asking you to optimise your rest.
19 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Arundhati Roy skips Berlinale over Gaza comments and festival response
Arundhati Roy, celebrated Indian writer, essayist, and activist, has recently been at the centre of a controversy surrounding the Berlin International Film Festival regarding comments on the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
17 February 2026, 19:09 PM
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