Essay / The unheard theory: What the female voice in Sufi rituals reveals about modern life
25 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Essay
Poetry / Tired of crying in CNGs
25 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Tribute / Humayun Azad and the courage to dissent
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Books & Literature
Interview / Writing what silence carries: Mohua Chinappa on memory, pain, and inheritance
24 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Features
World Book Day / The quiet loneliness of a mind shaped by books
23 April 2026, 21:31 PM
Books & Literature
Between memory and mirage: The many lives of Vladimir Nabokov
22 April 2026, 23:04 PM
Books & Literature
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
News
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
REFLECTIONS / The fading appeal of the Eid magazine
Long before Pinterest boards and Instagram FYP, the Eid shongkha dictated what we wore.
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
News Report / From the ashes: Gaza’s first grassroots library rises amid genocide
12 April 2026, 21:43 PM
REFLECTIONS / Hope, doubts, and the fate of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela
19 February 2026, 19:01 PM
EVENT REPORT / Md Ashanur Rahman receives the International Creative Arts Award 2025
19 January 2026, 17:38 PM
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 / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
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.
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
~A Wish~
When my eyes dim
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Three Poems
Life is a bundle of mingled yarn
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Azfar Hussain’s Dorshonakkhyan: Materialist Philosophy
In Hegelian philosophy, the dialectical relation between appearance and reality is an important relationship. Marx brought this
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Grace
Gabriella is a 40-year-old obstetrician-gynaecologist from Australia, a godsend for the violated women spat out by the nine-month
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Romanticism and Gothicism through literature and arts
The second day of the event included the cultural competition, where students from five different universities presented their interpretations of Romanticism and Gothicism through poetry
24 April 2019, 18:00 PM
An Anchorite’s Call to Reread Tagore
Tagore is almost a century-old fixation with the Bengali-speaking world. A continual sprightly stream of books, writings and speeches
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
On (Dis)connection between Reading and Writing
Back in 2005 in California, I was reading Edward Said’s Power, Politics, and Culture. This book is a collection of twenty-eight interviews
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
You Were Never Really Here
The eyes often grow heavy
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Necropolis
The empty lane of the cemetery was lit by the ancient stars flickering above. The wind had leaves dancing on their branches. It was a
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
The Living Fountains
There is a buzz in the house this morning. Things are on the move. Nishat has taken full command, directing her troops to advance swiftly. I look at my watch and ask chotu to fetch my briefcase and the driver to get the car out.
19 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Stranger to Myself
MD Sharif Uddin's memoir Stranger to Myself: Diary of a Bangladeshi in Singapore was awarded best non-fiction at the Singapore Book Awards in 2018.
18 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Hunting for Hilsa
My mother told me to get a big Ilish maach for Pohela Baishakh. My face went pale. However much I claimed to love my mother, I had no wish to go to the maachher bazaar.
12 April 2019, 18:00 PM
The Charyapadas: Where Bangla Began
Creating the world and nirvana on their own,
12 April 2019, 18:00 PM
My Aunt Summer, a Sonnet
Summer! My aunt in red, redundant words,
12 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Muse of Baishakh
Baishakh is yet to show up,
12 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Pohela Baishakh My Bengali New Year Musings
Pohela Baishakh, in other words, got momentum as a kind of counter-discourse -- a vibrant collective and spontaneous response to the damming of the Bengali nationalist consciousness by successive Pakistani military governments working in cahoots with Muslim League politicians.
12 April 2019, 18:00 PM
TOMORROW'S NATION BUILDERS
Ecstatic high achievers and proud parents of tomorrow's nation-builders filled the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium
6 April 2019, 18:00 PM
“Novels cannot always be made only with the Imagination and the Pen”: A Talk with Mostofa Kamal
Novelist Mostofa Kamla was born in the village of Andharmanik under Barisal district on 30 May 1970. He started his career as a
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
The College Professor
My cousin Nirmalya was born and brought up in Delhi. He would visit us in Kolkata occasionally while visiting his ancestral home and
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Two Poems
Autumn leaves are seasoned
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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