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
City Beloved
Humayun Ahmed's Tomader Ei Nagar-e projects Dhaka--our beloved city!--with all her beauties, flaws, eccentricities, and mysteries
4 August 2017
Literature and the City
Urban spaces have deeply contradictory existences in our imagination. We love cities and the goodies they offer; we also hate them
4 August 2017
Two Idiots in Dhaka
That building over there—that is the High Court!
4 August 2017
Tears of Unmet Love
Once upon a decade, a lost soul had fallen in love with the flaws of another one. He saw beauty in the eccentricity of her grey skin,
28 July 2017
Beyond the Shadows of Life
She kept on walking.
28 July 2017
Coleridge: Stories of Betrayal, Pain and Misunderstanding
Sometime in 1797 something magical happened in English literature. Two poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge by
28 July 2017
Sense of Poetic Essence
The sublime use of language can be best met in poetry which holds an intrinsic kinship with aesthetics. Poets play with words
28 July 2017
21st Century High Politics in the Indo-Pacific and the Bay of Bengal
A post-cold war international economic and political order is still unfolding and has been witnessing concerted attempts by traditional
28 July 2017
The Lights of Love
The universe has a way of tossing us into the winds of time
28 July 2017
Jane Austen's words, in numbers
Jane Austen is seeing something of a revival, if that can be said of an eternally popular writer, this year.
27 July 2017
Romancing a Royal Favour: The Dedication Page of Emma
Of the six novels written by Jane Austen, Emma is the only one to include a dedication page. It reads, "To His Royal Highness, The
21 July 2017
Austenland Revisited
I advance towards the bookshelf, a pleasurable hum of anticipation running through me – today is that most rare of opportunities: an
21 July 2017
Quotes on Austen
You could not shock her more than she shocks me,
21 July 2017
A Dream within a Dream
Imagine a world where you are the creator and the decider. And where you are the king in a kingdom of critters. It's a dream land, of
21 July 2017
Doves and Dogs of War
Wars, great and small, have been a part of recorded human history. Given the varied elements that go toward the making of
21 July 2017
Becoming a Janeite
I cannot exactly pinpoint the first time I read Austen. Back in high school? Or in one of my earlier semester breaks as an undergrad?
21 July 2017
A walk in the wake of destruction
In all likelihood these [the rings] are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the planet and was destroyed by its [Saturn's] tidal effect...
20 July 2017
Benimadhob
Benimadhob!My darling Benimadhob!
14 July 2017
Poetry
Poetry springs from childhood memories. It's mother's pale face
14 July 2017
Writing April
We knew each other only through our articles. I liked Tulip Chowdhury's dreamy, messy, stream of consciousness essays. She didn't
14 July 2017
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