Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues

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As part of the university’s 2026 Earth Day celebration, the Department of English and Humanities at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh (DEH-ULAB) organized a book discussion event on Tuesday, April 21, centered on climate fiction (cli-fi) and how fiction can provide not only parallels and premonitions for our present and future but also bring a wider audience’s attention to perhaps the single most important issue of our time. The event, titled “Lines on a Drying Map: Communities, Conflict, Currents, and Cli-Fi”
FICTION / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM ⁠⁠Fiction
Poetry / The aviary within
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NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
The six-week intensive program offers beginners and budding writers mentor-led guidance in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, focusing on Bangladeshi cultural narratives
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
On the chilly afternoon of January 10, Bookworm Bangladesh, in collaboration with Voices Shaping Society, hosted the book launch of The July Resolve, a collection of 36 narratives that depicts the strength and struggles of people from all walks of life during the Monsoon Revolution of 2024.

Enslaved

My body is not my own.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

Here is a door stopper for the lingering period of hibernation. All 522 pages provide ample literary support for long-term homebound inmates.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM

The case of the missing girl: Where are we in Bangla children’s literature?

It wasn’t until my 20s that I realised I had read less than 10 Bengali women authors in my childhood and adolescence.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Women and Bangladesh's publishing industry

The publishing and literary world in Bangladesh have considerable visibility of women: some are authoritative figures in the literary and academic world, some run their own establishments and bookshops; others occupy senior positions in many of the local publishing houses and literary committees. However, like the systems and society we currently operate in, this industry is also influenced by the larger patriarchal structure.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Is science fiction really not a woman’s genre?

Last week, I decided to pen a tribute to my favourite authors of science fiction, a love letter, really, that has long been in the pipeline.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Five novels with strong women protagonists

Hellfire is at once a book about patriarchy and the toxic strand of matriarchy that supports it. Through the lives of sisters Lovely and Beauty, both kept from socialisation and even attending school deep into middle age, the novel captures near perfectly the convoluted blueprint of life for South Asian women.
10 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Once More Into the Past: Essays, Personal, Public, and Literary

“How does Tagore intoxicate a growing young man . . . .? How has Dhaka transitioned through the Partition of Bengal and the birth of the University of Dhaka? . . . . how does one remember-- with nuance, with style-- icons of history and culture . . . .?”
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM

What Does It Mean to Write in an Everyday Life?

There is a paradox to literacy in our contemporary societies.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM

What does it take to build a business empire?

Binod K Chaudhary, the chairman of the CG Corp Global conglomerate group, is Nepal’s first billionaire and possibly the most successful industrialist in his nation.
4 March 2021, 11:03 AM

Conservation through literature

The River Tales (2021) is a series of graphic novels for children, commissioned by Asia Foundation’s ‘Let’s Read Asia’ digital library project and produced by HerStory Foundation in an effort to raise awareness about Bangladesh’s heritage and culture. Sarah Anjum Bari, editor of Star Books, speaks to Katerina Don, curator at HerStory Foundation, writer Anita Amreen, and artist Sayeef Mahmud about their processes of research, writing, and graphic designing for the series.
3 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Translation with a Midas touch

Abdus Selim, a noted Bangladeshi translator, playwright, essayist and educationist, has, of late, come up with a collection of five plays in Bangla translation titled Panch Manchanubad (Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, 2021).
3 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Night has brought him something worse: 2021’s first must-read

“The thing was that everyone knew Julita’s parents hadn’t died in any accident: Julita’s folks had disappeared. They were disappeared. They’d been disappeared”.
3 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Bill Gates’ blueprint for a greener planet

Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and the world’s fourth-wealthiest person, has written a new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Knopf, 2021) in which he cites the looming catastrophe of radical global climate change and sets out an incredibly ambitious goal that he argues is the only possible path for our species’ survival: achieving zero.
3 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Together against the catastrophe

The 156-page hardback edition will be available in Bangla, English, and German.
2 March 2021, 08:41 AM

‘Tumi Kon Gogoner Tara’: In remembrance of a mother

A solemn tribute to mothers and to our nation’s unrelenting humanity, Hussain’s novel shows us the people and the Bangladesh we could more often be.
1 March 2021, 11:12 AM

Boibondhu book exchange festival takes place at Rabindra Sarobar

The event witnessed participation from people of all ages, from toddlers to adults.
27 February 2021, 13:34 PM

In Memoriam: Smaran and Palataka: Tagore’s Elegiac Poems

Tagore has remained ceaselessly relevant to us not just for his contributions to Bengali literature but also for issues relating to society, politics, gender, education and even environment.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

The Tree

Doctor Mahtab Uddin looked at the luminescent hands of his watch: 9 pm. Not that late, he thought and sat down on the circular cement platform not far from the patient’s house.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Serajul Islam Chowdhury speaks about the state of Bangla education

Language and education are prime markers in identifying one’s participation in society and politics. Having just commemorated the International Mother Language Day on February 21, that too on the verge of our nation’s silver jubilee, it is perhaps a unique opportunity for us to question, reflect, and make changes to our politics on language, education, and social identities.
24 February 2021, 18:00 PM

In death, he became visible

Vivek Oji, the titular character in Akwaeke Emezi’s second novel, is dead; this is stated in the title, the first line, and throughout the book. However, in every chapter, Vivek keeps coming alive, images of him rising out of the text’s surface only to dissolve again.
24 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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