Essay / The writing’s boring, so he’s a third-class writer
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Essay
Some authors are gadflies, ever stinging and nettling the established order. Some write for more or less the same reason a carpenter works with wood, or a sous-chef does mise en place.
Poetry / You ask me
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Poetry
Book Review: Fiction / The queen who would not stay dead
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Book Review: Nonfiction / A historian’s vision vis-a-vis Hindutva mythmaking
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Fiction / Lira’s glasses
19 July 2026, 19:00 PM
Fiction
Event Report / Special Discussion Marks Abul Hasnat’s Birth Anniversary: ‘Nabiner Shahittya: Shwapna O Shwapnabhongo’
19 July 2026, 17:49 PM
News
Tribute / The teacher beyond the classroom
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Tribute
Flash Fiction / The knife seller
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Poetry / Home
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Poetry
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.
News Report / Kazuo Ishiguro set to return with new novel in 2027
20 June 2026, 15:18 PM
News Report / NSU DEML offers certificate course in creative writing for the second time
16 June 2026, 22:03 PM
Event Report / “Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
15 July 2026, 21:38 PM
News Report / Jamir Nazir wins 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize following AI review
3 July 2026, 20:09 PM
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026, 17:40 PM
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
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026, 21:48 PM
Not every story ends with rejoicing. Not all questions are answered within one lifetime. Not everyone will get to fulfil their dreams. All my protagonists are incomplete until the end. And the end itself offers no catharsis. It’s the same darkness that was present when the reader met them the first time. I write about the world and the people within it the way I have experienced the world.
News Report / Marjane Satrapi, voice of exile and resistance, dies at 56
4 June 2026, 17:58 PM
Event Report / Poetry collection Adivasi Premikar Mukh: The Portrait of an Adivasi Beloved launched at Bangla Academy
19 May 2026, 14:26 PM
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.
Event Report / Two-day literary memorial and discussion event held at Bengal Shilpalay
17 May 2026, 17:16 PM
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026, 17:04 PM
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, 00:00 AM
Creative Nonfiction / Our Eids and Puja in Azimpur
30 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay / Ghosts in the secretariat: Mapping the Bangladeshi Gothic
7 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
News Report / Two Bangladeshi writers make 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist
14 April 2026, 16:54 PM
You ask me
If I’m doing well but the sun is being cruel as I protest the rape and murder of yet another child.
My belly gurgles—I wanted to feel grateful this Ramadan,
1 hour(s) ago
The writing’s boring, so he’s a third-class writer
Some authors are gadflies, ever stinging and nettling the established order. Some write for more or less the same reason a carpenter works with wood, or a sous-chef does mise en place.
1 hour(s) ago
A historian’s vision vis-a-vis Hindutva mythmaking
Illustrious historian Romila Thapar’s monumental memoir, Just Being, explores many subjects: her childhood days in Lahore, exciting archaeological expeditions, enunciation of the historiography she has followed, etc. But what perhaps stands out in this fascinating book is her sustained confrontation with Hindutva, which is still continuing unabated.
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The queen who would not stay dead
The history of the six wives of Henry VIII has become the stuff of legend in English history.
23 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Lira’s glasses
“Mama, I will drive you”, their chauffeur pleaded.
“I can drive, Mama. Please take a day off”, she smiled at him.
Before starting the car, she took her purse in her hands, opened it slowly, and put on her glasses. She decided to see, after all.
19 July 2026, 19:00 PM
Special Discussion Marks Abul Hasnat’s Birth Anniversary: ‘Nabiner Shahittya: Shwapna O Shwapnabhongo’
A special literary discussion titled ‘Nabiner Shahittya: Shwapna O Shwapnabhongo’ was held on Friday, July 17, 2026, at 5:00 P.M. on the third floor of Bengal Shilpalay in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. This discussion was organised to commemorate the birth anniversary of distinguished poet, essayist, and literary editor Abul Hasnat. The event brought together prominent writers and editors to discuss the literary pursuits of emerging authors and the pivotal role editors play in nurturing new literary voices.
19 July 2026, 17:49 PM
Home
Loosened from the
narrative of my own living
is a world
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The knife seller
People call me the Knife Seller.
I cannot recall when the name came to be. Neither did I ever correct anyone. I preferred it that way. It makes my job easier.
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The teacher beyond the classroom
My earliest memories of Professor Fakrul sir are, naturally, of the classroom.
18 July 2026, 00:00 AM
A silent warning against the modern life
The story marks a quiet departure from Obayed Haq’s recent releases, while also hinting at the pitfalls of modernity. In today’s fast-paced world, amid the noise and light pollution of everyday life, Obayed Haq’s protagonist reminds readers to slow down, or at least to take a long, hard look at our easy enmeshment with the “modern” life.
16 July 2026, 19:00 PM
Who wrote the life you’re living?
Are you writing about your life in your own way? Or are you merely borrowing the very strings that tie you to society’s expectations? Through Tokyo’s gauzy midnight light, Mieko Kawakami’s All the Lovers in the Night captures the stillness of a generation suspended between desire and exhaustion, passion and pressure which reveal paralysis as cultural weather rather than personal defect.
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Let there be monsters: On AI mythology
Ask any room of people about their deepest fears regarding artificial intelligence, and eight out of 10 will likely invoke a takeover narrative—the “Frankenstein syndrome”, where the creation turns against the creator.
16 July 2026, 00:00 AM
“Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
A unique and heartwarming workshop, designed to celebrate the beautiful journey of parenthood through creative expression and quality time
15 July 2026, 21:38 PM
What he called love
A photograph slipped from an envelope while Alia rummaged through an old metal trunk.
11 July 2026, 00:00 AM
A cruel radiance of vibrant yearning
In this essay, Jibanananda Das’s poem “In Camp” is presented within a new theoretical framework. My primary objective is to dissect it in the light of my proposed “Existential-Imagism.” (The Daily Star, 2026).
11 July 2026, 00:00 AM
The Naysayer
A name. The Naysayer. A terrible name he had earned, a name he had carried in rage and grief. But it no longer mattered. What mattered was this world. With a wave of his hand, the layers of ash and dust peeled back like dying petals, revealing the scorched land above. He stepped onto the surface of the dead world, unsteady, grief filling his ancient heart as he beheld the guttering fires.
10 July 2026, 10:00 AM
5 books published in this year’s Boi Mela that you should read
For readers who like short fiction with range, Upoma Odhikari’s Hibernation is an easy recommendation. The book brings together seven stories across different genres, written in a soft, distinctly Bangladeshi voice that feels increasingly confident as you go.
7 July 2026, 19:00 PM
Leftovers
Morning greets us with
Upturned eyes. Or is it just me?
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Incomplete
Get drunk by Gazal they say,
I never understood that
Until now,
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Where the blood doesn’t speak
When Reza was 10, war lived on the rooftop.
4 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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