Essay / A humanist in the age of AI
8 August 2026
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Books & Literature
For centuries, literature asked us to believe that language is more than information, that it’s a rich repository of history, memory, grief, longing, humour, silence, and entire ways of seeing and making sense of the world.
Fiction / Sapiosexual
8 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Essay / Rabindranath, Nazrul, Jibanananda: Predecessor and contemporary
7 August 2026
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Essay
Review: Short story of the month / Anxiety, unmarriedness, and ‘An Eye and a Leg’
6 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Book review: Fiction / Three realms, one unforgettable love story
6 August 2026
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Books & Literature
Poetry / Ode to my girls
2 August 2026
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Poetry
Essay / A beginner’s guide to ‘Khwabnama’
31 July 2026
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Books & Literature
Book review: Nonfiction / Witnessing Alzheimer’s through Ernaux’s unflinching prose
31 July 2026
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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.
Event Report / Dhaka Zine Mela 2026: A celebration of creativity and community
11 June 2026
On June 6 and 7, 2026, at Goethe-Institut, Dhanmondi, Zine Mela Dhaka 2026 was held, organised by Sister Library (Dhaka) and Colors Publishing. The two-day event brought together independent artists, writers, and creators to celebrate self-publishing, artistic expression, and community engagement.
Interview / Diaspora, national identity and reality TV with Pajtim Statovci
9 June 2026
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.
The shelf / 7 Asian healing fiction recommendations for rainy days
18 June 2026
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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
Fiction / Body Selim
18 April 2026
Rebel Poet
One day he will sing his song.
13 October 2017
Metamorphosis of an Artist as a Heroic Man
The night of November 20th, 1993 was in many ways Kafkaesque for Rashid Karim, one of the major novelists of Bangladesh. The
13 October 2017
Of Ball Gowns, Corsages, and Tuxes
In more ways than one, an anthology is like an assorted box of candies; you never know what's coming next; 21 Proms is no exception to
13 October 2017
An arson in utopia
“Most communities just happen; the best are planned” - is the motto of a perfectionist community, Shaker Heights.
11 October 2017
Capsule
Our conversations end mid-sentence.
6 October 2017
Romancing the Senses-Hearing
Wikipedia lists the 5 senses thus: taste, sight, touch, smell and hearing, and they are all important, but it's sight that dominates the
6 October 2017
BATTLE OF THE SENSES?
Battle? What does it mean? One sense against another? No, it's an intellectual tamasha in which six professors of English Literature
6 October 2017
The Sixth Sense
1. Both Sigmund Freud and Jung studied the unconscious but did not strongly emphasize the 'Sixth Sense' or the Intuitive one,
6 October 2017
The Sense of Touch
It was a pair of forceps that brought me into the world. The metallic tongs pulled me out of my mother's womb. I don't remember the
6 October 2017
The Politics of a Violent Decolonization
Professor Serajul Islam Chowdhury's Jatiotabad, Samprodaikata O JonogonerMukti: 1905-47 or Nationalism, Communalism and
6 October 2017
Who reads young adult books?
How the young adult genre evolved to gain universal readership
5 October 2017
Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Literature Prize
British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" and whose emotional uprooting from his native Japan has left an indelible stamp on his work, wins the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize.
5 October 2017
For the War Heroines, I will Speak
It was 1996 when I first got hold of Dr. Nilima Ibrahim's Aami Birangana Bolchhi, or rather, the book got hold of me—my soul, my
29 September 2017
Snippets
Him: Off to India. What should
29 September 2017
The Eternal Song
I celebrate myself—
29 September 2017
The Fish of Kalshi
“The whole area will be digital!” says Taimur Reza, the scrawny, bald-and-bearded proprietor of Taimur's betel leaf stand on the
29 September 2017
Franny and Zooey (1961) by J. D. Salinger
While everyone knows J.D. Salinger for his widely-acclaimed masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, very few are familiar with his other
29 September 2017
Farah Ghuznavi's Fragments of Riversong: Ballads for Our Time
Long ago, I read somewhere that writing short stories is more difficult than writing a novel. While writing about Fragments of
29 September 2017
Metamorphosis
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock,
22 September 2017
Key holes
We hide our wet lace behind a trellis of plants, our voices honeyed from jaded soap operas.
22 September 2017
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