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.
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
The Last Burger
A brown, robust dog looks on anxiously while sitting at a busy intersection of the city. The male dog has chosen a dark and safe place
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Touring the Land of the Lake Poets
The picturesque mountainous area in the north-west part of England, commonly known as the Lake District, is a top favorite tourist
5 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Freedom Fighter
Ever-undaunted, I am heading forward, ignoring all obstacles,
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Ek Kishorir Juddhajatra : A Painful Tale Told Spontaneously
It’s the tale of a teenage girl’s reminiscence of her journey from home country to a neighbouring country to take refuge during the devastating war of liberation in the year 1971, told by herself at the age of sixty.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
BANGABANDHU AND BANGLADESH: Correcting Contrives and Cunning Corridors
Lamartine — that mediocre poet but cunning politician in France during the revolutions of 1848 — once remarked that history is a trick that we, the living, play upon the dead.
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Melancholy Medicine
60 mg of Prozac
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Sodium: (Na)mesake
Have you seen my City?
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Cricket and Visions
On March 18th, a poet named John was hit in the eye and knocked out by a ball while playing an informal game of cricket. Perhaps
29 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Not Like This
The wise their moments spare will spend
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Independence, how this word became ours
With the excitement of waiting for a poem to be composed
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Charon’s Obol
“Mukti?” The word was a tremor of butterfly wings.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Hits a Century
Thanks to Google I have, at a click of the mouse, discovered that in our time around 165 members of the literary professions have
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The 1971 we don’t talk about
According to estimations, around 200,000-400,000 women were tortured and raped by the Pakistani Military and their collaborators
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Olden Times of 2019
Cowsar sat there, looking outside his garden at the Red Planet's artificial-earthen beauty. The red earth looked surprisingly pretty in the blinding light of the sun.
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM
The Name of the Beloved
Tell me, Bell,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
From Gitabitan
What made you leave hesitatingly at twilight?
What made you falter at the threshold and look back?
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
From Tungipara
Sitting beside the secluded sepulcher
Praying for the salvation of your soul,
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Victory I Have Seen
If you ask me exactly when and how the Mujibnagar govt.-in-exile was first assembled, I cannot give you the answer right away, mostly because too many possible answers are floating in the air as I speak.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Dreams & Shadows: Perspectives on Multifarious Issues
“When white people commit acts of terrorism, we term them mentally ill. When governments commit acts of war and terrorism, we call it Foreign Policy. When a Muslim commits an act of terror, we call it terrorism.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
A Writer's Enigma
I cannot write. For a month, it lingers. Every morning, I sit in front of my laptop and hope to write something new, something noble. But nothing comes out. Not a word, not a sentence. As if the sea of creativity has dried up.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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