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
RADA LOOMS
Bret and I were marching resolutely towards our Holy Grail, waiting for us only a couple of hundred meters or so away, though still out
22 September 2017
Gabo's Solitude
Love for stories, rather fairy tales, begins from childhood. The stories of childhood travel by flights of fancy. As we grow up though,
22 September 2017
The Boy Who Lived in a Graveyard
Heartwrenching, un-put-down-able, and deliciously dark, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is winner of numerous literary awards for
22 September 2017
Byajstuti: Sadness of Daily Life
Anarchy has become like daily soap in our day-to-day life. Most of us seem to be “know all, see all” types, but say nothing.
22 September 2017
The Ring of Truth: Myths of Sex and Jewelry
“I started collecting stories and ideas about rings over the years... Over these years, wherever I went, no matter what people asked me
22 September 2017
The Nature of the Linguistic Sign
Signifier: Alas, that I am only what I am not.
15 September 2017
Rice
In the wooded marshland of Manbhoom, the mountain peaks stretched beyond the horizon. Spring was almost gone; palash trees in
15 September 2017
Decision Pending
He was hell-bent on getting out of Purgatory. There was no good reason for him to be in this position but here he was. It really wasn't
15 September 2017
Ashapurna Devi and the Feminist Consciousness in Bengal: A Biocritical Reading
The book engages with a critical discussion on feminist consciousness in India, perhaps in South Asia, as to the attributes of feminist
15 September 2017
A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan, the editors of A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain,
15 September 2017
The Principle of Resonance
The Architect of designated Life
15 September 2017
What If?
He said she was his Achilles' heel long before she had read Homer. "What's an Achilles' heel?" She asked with the innocence of a
8 September 2017
The Craig's List
The newly weds were still living with ramshackle old furniture and gadgets ~ different pieces collected over the years that my son had
8 September 2017
Poetry
From dawn's early luster to unfulfilled dusk hours
8 September 2017
Fairy Tales
“and mother... Why tell me the story of a tiger,
8 September 2017
A 21st Century Novel: Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace
It is awkward to write about a novel when one is not a literary critic. The task is all the more daunting, given that unlike Tahmima
8 September 2017
The Bones of Grace or the Coming-of-Age of a Writer
Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace is the last in the trilogy that began with A Golden Age and was followed up by The Good Muslim.
8 September 2017
In and Around Boston As an Actor-to-be
Almost in front of the entrance to, and egress from, the Goodge Street subway station on Tottenham Court Road stood a coin-
25 August 2017
Poetry
Carts. Midnight. Crossing.
25 August 2017
Patrick Modiano's So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborho
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood is Patrick Modiano's first publication since 2014 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
25 August 2017
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