Event Report / “We do not live outside history”: Dr. Azfar Hussain on humanism, fascism, and the July Uprising
26 July 2026, 16:24 PM
News
“It is one of those questions that politely pretends to be a title, but secretly aspires to be a life’s work,” began Dr. Azfar Hussain on an overcast evening on the July 23, 2026, addressing a packed forum hall at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (ULAB), alluding to the title of his public lecture: What Does It Mean to Be Human in the Age of 'Posthumanism' and Global Fascism?
Essay / The writing’s boring, so he’s a third-class writer
25 July 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Poetry / You ask me
25 July 2026, 00:00 AM
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
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
From Liberation War Hero to Prison and After: A Sobering Tale
Two narratives counterpoint each other in Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury’s Chariot of Life: Liberation War, Politics and Sojourn in Jail. The first is the absorbing story of major events in the author’s life till the closing years of the first decade of this century. The second is
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The Deer
We lived in Pirojpur then. Barisal is the land of rivers and nullahs, and Pirojpur is no exception. Unless you have been to this Southern region of the country, you cannot claim to have really seen the country. We were not used to seeing such multitudes of rivers and
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
In the Turmeric Fields: The World of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Young Durga of Pother Panchali chanted the rhymes as she wandered amidst the wildernesses of Nischindipur. No, she did not make up the lyrics; they were taught to her by her elderly aunt Indir Thakrun. I myself was very young when I first came across the tale of
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Jokha Alharthi's 'Celestial Bodies': More than a glimpse into a culture
Just like the pools that drip from Abdallah's home into the longer al-Awafi alleys, these insightful, heartfelt snippets capture the lived experience of an Oman in transition over decades
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The Swains and the Sea
The Swains and the Sea
What is a sea to a fisherman’s eye?
A giving friend? A savior?
Or a killer in disguise?
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
THE MUSE
Each writer born must have a muse,
Or so I’m told, for if they do,
And if they should, do they know how
To let it in or haven’t found
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Abul Mansur Ahmed’s Ayna: A World of Satire in the Light of Art
Ayna, a collection of seven short stories by Abul Mansur Ahmed was published in 1935. Written through the span of 1922- 1929, these pieces were published in Saugat edited by Muhammad Nasiruddin. The stories were satiric in structure, reflective in observation,
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Adieu, Perpetual Migrant!
The virtuoso with the pen Rizia Rahman has ended her terrestrial sojourn on 16th August, just a few months shy of entering her octogenarian phase. A prolific writer treading most of the domains of creative writing, she has left an indelible personal mark on our literary landscape.
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part II)
SH: In 2011 you made a mega-documentary on 1971. What research on governmental policy documents went into the use of firearms by the Muktijoddhas as shown in your film, or as generally shown in films on the Liberation War?
6 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Searching for the Loved One: From the pen of a bereaved father
It was on August 25, 2018, an evening just after the Kurbani Eid holidays, when Mr. Kamran, 66, a returnee from Dubai, went to Banani graveyard, Dhaka to visit his mother’s and father’s graves. After saying prayers he asked the caretaker of the graveyard “Do you have any empty grave?”
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Nation, Identity and Alternative Bangla Cinema: Conversing with Tanvir Mokammel (Part 1)
Tanvir Mokammel hails from Khulna, which is also the workplace of Prof. Sabiha Huq. This past February, when he was in Khulna for the launching of his partition novel Kirtinasha, the English Department of Khulna University became the privileged venue for a
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Angels and Monsters
One late afternoon, dragging his injured leg Kamal finally stood in front of a particular door of a shanti. For some strange reason, he could not enter the house as he used to even five months ago. He called out in a trembling voice, “Nuru! Where are you, my son? I’m home.”
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
I was led to delusion,
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
When She Misses Him (2009)
A sudden stillness!
30 August 2019, 18:00 PM
On loving childhood reads as an adult
I have been recovering from a very long and arduous block in my reading life, a block that could not be broken by the fattest or
29 August 2019, 18:00 PM
A simple, straightforward reading of South Asian history
Dr Nurul Islam has been a towering presence in the intellectual landscape of Bangladesh. He has graduate degrees from Harvard, and held prestigious fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Yale and the Netherland School of Economics, was Professor and Chair of Economics at Dhaka University, and the author of about 29 books of some scholarly heft and influence.
29 August 2019, 18:00 PM
The Beggar
Though I called out to the shopkeeper a couple of times, he didn’t heed me. He was too busy rearranging the products on the rack. As I was waiting for him to respond, a middle-aged beggar woman turned up on my left and begged for money from me. At first, I
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM
The Fifteenth of August
The crimson hue is still in the morning sky.
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Why Is Writing So Difficult to Accomplish?
Writing is a struggle for everyone. If it seems easy, a writer is not doing it right. Because writing is mired in myths and misunderstanding, most writers – aspiring writers, in particular – consider the essential difficulty in writing as a pathology. They feel
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Ghoulish Sentiments
Slumped with our luggage we got off the train looking apprehensively at the quaint sight before us. Saplings and balding grasslands carpeted serenely with occasional trees of variety here and there. The scenery struck me with great unfamiliarity in contrast to the city
23 August 2019, 18:00 PM
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