Book Review: Nonfiction / Fara Dabhoiwala’s history misses the one thing that truly matters
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Non-fiction review
That censorship is not only malign but also stupid and, in the long run, futile, is a lesson that every tinpot dictator and overzealous bureaucrat has to learn afresh.
Book Review: Fiction / Agency, identity, and the rewriting of Medusa
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction review
Creative Nonfiction / Before the monsoon had a name
29 April 2026, 19:25 PM
Creative non-fiction
Reflection / Harper Lee at 100: An enduring echo of justice
28 April 2026, 20:10 PM
Literature
Event Report / DEML-NSU hosts closing ceremony for first cohort of its Creative Writing Certificate Course
27 April 2026, 22:43 PM
News
Fiction / The rooftop
25 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Fiction
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
Thorns in My Quilt (Rupa Publications India, 2024) unfolds through address rather than disclosure. Written as a series of letters to her father, Mohua Chinappa’s memoir traces memory not as a sequence of events, but as an emotional inheritance shaped by silence, expectation, and the subtle negotiations that govern family life.
Atopor Shabdayan becomes Bangladesh partner of global poetry platform Lyrikline
22 March 2026, 10:37 AM
Event Report / DEH-ULAB hosts Earth Day 2026 talk on climate fiction and water issues
22 April 2026, 18:41 PM
EVENT REPORT / ‘Unlearning the Book’: When stories escape the page
17 March 2026, 15:35 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
On January 18, 2026 novelist and essayist Md Ashanur Rahman was awarded The International Creative Arts Award 2025 by the International Creative Arts, Language & Development Research Centre of the University of Dhaka for his outstanding contribution to literature and its role in Enriching Minds and Inspiring Lives.
NEWS REPORT / NSU DEML launches inaugural certificate course in creative writing
17 January 2026, 16:00 PM
EVENT REPORT / Bangladesh’s first interactive mental health book launched
15 January 2026, 13:43 PM
The book features 15 chapters covering essential topics such as attachment styles, love languages, and shadow work.
EVENT REPORT / Unveiling ‘The July Resolve': Stories of resilience & resistance
14 January 2026, 16:01 PM
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 Black Diamond and Shayista Khan
Ihave always been intrigued by the historical novel. Some of it is composed around real historical figures, events, and locations,
13 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Nobel laureate VS Naipaul to inaugurate Dhaka Literary Festival Nov 17
Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul is coming to Bangladesh to attend the Dhaka Literary Festival that will be held at the Bangla Academy on November 17-19.
13 November 2016, 10:07 AM
A Sojourn in Time
My long desired visit to Meghalaya this year in fact pushed me back to the landscape of the days we spent here taking refuge in 1971
11 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Meeting Liz
“No need to pay, I like you enough to give a free night,” Liz said to me.
11 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Suspense around Every Corner
If you are searching for a good book to pass time, or have a knack for suspense with hints of romance here and there, then I have the book for you.
9 November 2016, 18:00 PM
When expectations are limitless
Whenever I lay buried in a fat volume written by a long 'extinct' writer, the great minds of today often ask me, “Why are you reading that?
6 November 2016, 18:00 PM
A portrayal of different stages of life
Short stories by Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, are a veritable delight to read.
6 November 2016, 18:00 PM
A study on corporate social responsibility
To use a hackneyed expression, times change. As has for the world of corporate business practice.
6 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Nothing is Lost
He watched from his window as the seasons changed. There was no yearning in his gaze, just a weary observer looking through glass
4 November 2016, 18:00 PM
VERNAL VISUAL: MELBOURNE DIURNAL
The diurnal and the nocturnal gyrations of the earth, the magnetic and gravitational attraction and repulsion of the celestial spheres
4 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Into the Heart of Bengal
If literary delights are more to the taste than culinary, George Thompson englishes the improvised songs of the palky-bearers taking
4 November 2016, 18:00 PM
A New YA Fantasy Series Worth a Quick Dive
I was introduced to the Summoner series in a time when I was craving to read and delve into a new world with very little time to spare.
2 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Omni Books
Derelict is fascinating story of Sudhir Sebastian Rosario, a “native” Christian who was born in the village of Kanakpur, Noakhali but who goes to High School in Pahartali, where his father works for the Bengal Assam Railway.
30 October 2016, 18:00 PM
A Deathless Life: Tagore and the “Daughters of Jorasanko”
Chakravarti's vision of the pain and beauty of desolation and loss, the wrench of memories and “the sense of a world slipping away” is masterly.
30 October 2016, 18:00 PM
A look at communalism and fundamentalism in society
He points out quite correctly that communalism and fundamentalism have always been two important facets of social history and have in their own way influenced the evolution of culture and civilization.
30 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Bob Dylan breaks silence on Nobel Prize
American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, has finally told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize.
29 October 2016, 04:08 AM
The Other Handmaid's Tale
I happened to be living in California when the twin towers were destroyed and, although a long way from New York, I observed
28 October 2016, 18:00 PM
Into the Heart of Bengal
“Most men carry weapons of defence with them. I carry none. A revolver was offered me before I started but I declined it. My
28 October 2016, 18:00 PM
The $900,000 question behind Dylan's Nobel
Many writers might give their right arm to be paid almost $1 million to deliver a lecture. But Bob Dylan's silence since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature might mean he never sees the award money.
25 October 2016, 05:21 AM
In This Winter
And these buildings wearing out this winter's heart –
21 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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