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
Writing about writing, history, and Palestine
In The Message, Coates details several experiences from his travels to Senegal and Palestine, his correspondences with a teacher in South Carolina fighting against a school board’s push to ban books with topics deemed controversial, and his personal takeaways from these events.
12 November 2025, 11:41 AM
Szalay wins Booker Prize for tortured tale of masculinity
Last year's prize was won by British writer Samantha Harvey for her short novel, "Orbital"
11 November 2025, 02:21 AM
An eco-critical look at Sultan: Reading the manuscript of ‘Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha’
With the aid of Duniyadari Archive, Pavel Partha’s soon-to-be-published book Sultan Er Krishi Jiggasha is a new addition, which looks at Sultan’s work from an eco-critical perspective.
8 November 2025, 11:43 AM
The risk of becoming: Notes on translation and transformation
Translation is risk, and poetry is the highest form of risk
7 November 2025, 18:33 PM
Somewhere but not here
Tea breaks,
the perks of a bike ride.
7 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Zia Haider Rahman on his award-winning novel at NSU’s Colloquium series
The Department of English and Modern Languages (DEML) at North South University hosted a session of its Colloquium series titled “Zia Haider Rahman in Conversation with Dr Nazia Manzoor” on Tuesday, this week.
7 November 2025, 11:48 AM
A legacy of war, exile and division
‘Shattered Lands’ journeys through fractured histories of 1947 Partition that made modern South Asia
6 November 2025, 18:59 PM
Between expectations and choice
Translation is a bridge to connect different cultures and their literatures. It’s a medium to reflect the gems of a country’s literature around the globe.
5 November 2025, 18:00 PM
A story of separation and return: Clare Adam on crafting ‘Love Forms’
Accompanying the Booker Prize long-listed novels of this year, Clare Adam’s <I>Love Forms </I>(Faber, 2025) offers an enthralling tale of Dawn, the protagonist of the novel, who is in a lifelong search for her long-lost illegitimate daughter. Although Dawn continues her strides in life from gett
5 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Defining moments
Ogilvie reveals that the method of its construction: a global appeal for words from any and all English speakers, ensured that the language of the periphery flooded the metropole.
5 November 2025, 12:08 PM
Remembering Raza Ali
Raza Ali will be deeply missed—for his words, his warmth, and his unwavering faith in the power of literature to connect us. His voice, both written and spoken, will continue to guide and inspire all of us who had the privilege of knowing him.
4 November 2025, 13:36 PM
Discourse around the Heathcliff casting
Heathcliff portrays a very unique strain of masculinity. It is not one that comes from being a man in a patriarchal society, nor from one being amongst majority women.
2 November 2025, 12:00 PM
A prayer for Mauritius
Written in deep striking prose, Saramandi lends her authorial voice to the changing dynamics of her life whose future is described as “a line that turned out to be a loop” similar to the fate of her homeland.
1 November 2025, 13:30 PM
Writer’s block
Asif stares at the blank page, his chest tightening with that all-too-familiar dread.
31 October 2025, 19:37 PM
Paper dragons, haunted theaters, one very large cicada: An introduction to SCPs
One of the weirder relics of my early days on the internet—one that I'm certain many if not most of my fellow netizens around my age are quite familiar with—is Creepypasta:
31 October 2025, 19:37 PM
5 books on women’s everyday terror to read this Halloween: The horror that persists
The violence is domestic, institutional, and often unnamed—carried out by people who look nothing like monsters.
31 October 2025, 13:45 PM
The ghosts still sing in Shantinagar
"The ghosts still sing in Shantinagar" is one of the winning entries for our Halloween themed writing contest, 'Spooktober: Bhooter Adda'
31 October 2025, 04:45 AM
8 books to read if you’re fascinated by the louvre heist
These stories prove one thing: art theft never goes out of fashion.
30 October 2025, 13:30 PM
“Curious love letter”: Wole Soyinka responds after US cancels visa
He responded to the situation with grace, mentioning “I like people who have a sense of humour".
30 October 2025, 10:45 AM
From sacred art to consciousness: A leap too far
When Dan Brown finally returned in 2025 with The Secret of Secrets—the sixth Robert Langdon adventure—the world that devoured The Da Vinci Code (Doubleday, 2003) had mixed reactions to the story.
29 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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