Fiction / The winter ballot
19 September 2026
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Fiction
“I’m sorry, but choosing anywhere near the capital will delay your citizenship process by at least five years,” said the woman at the counter of the immigration office. “The capital itself will cost you a lifetime.”
Poetry / Four poems on healing
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Sacred sorrows
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Essay / How Tumblr folk tales are rewriting digital dread into quiet sanctuaries
17 September 2026
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Essay
Essay / The menstruating body and the making of ‘womanhood’ in literature
17 September 2026
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Essay
Book Review: Fiction / Finding stillness in ‘Being Water’
17 September 2026
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Books & Literature
Essay / ‘The Odyssey’ and what we lose when myth belongs only to its heroes
15 September 2026
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Essay
News Report / BRAC Institute of Languages and The Daily Star redefine English Education for youth
13 September 2026
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News
Book review: Fiction / Finding home, identity, and art in ‘Parsa’s Pithas’
11 September 2026
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Reviews
Literary Curtains / Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
“Ladyland is not perfect,” remarks Sultana, one of the protagonists in the much awaited play, “Project Ladyland 2026”. Produced by HerStory Foundation in collaboration with the British Council and Women of the World Foundation, the play was greeted by a full house this weekend. Staged at the Bangladesh Mohila Samiti theatre, the performance made a splash on Friday, August 14.
Event Report / Kobitabela: a soulful afternoon
9 September 2026
Event Report / “Our Story”: Where parents and children made memories by hand
15 July 2026
A unique and heartwarming workshop, designed to celebrate the beautiful journey of parenthood through creative expression and quality time
Event Report / Letters across a lifetime: The 20th staging of Love Letters
21 June 2026
On June 19, 2026, the occasion was the 20th staging of “Love Letters”, A. R. Gurney’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated play, translated and adapted into Bangla by writer and translator Professor Abdus Selim. Directed by veteran theatre actor and director Tropa Majumdar and staged by Group Theatre at the Dr. Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium, the production brought together the acting power couple, Ramendu Majumdar and Ferdausi Majumdar. Their performances transformed what could have easily been a simple reading of letters into something deeply intimate and profoundly human.
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
Four poems on healing
I sit by the river
and watch storks
and turtles,
19 September 2026
The winter ballot
“I’m sorry, but choosing anywhere near the capital will delay your citizenship process by at least five years,” said the woman at the counter of the immigration office. “The capital itself will cost you a lifetime.”
19 September 2026
Sacred sorrows
These are the moments you ought not to speak of:
from the morgue of growing things
19 September 2026
How Tumblr folk tales are rewriting digital dread into quiet sanctuaries
When it comes to digital folklore, we always think of Slenderman, the SCP Foundation’s cosmic bureaucracy, and occasionally viral creepypastas and fanfiction. We have convinced ourselves that the computer could only reflect our paranoia.
17 September 2026
Finding stillness in ‘Being Water’
Shazia Omar’s Being Water is a deeply introspective novel about grief, trauma, and the slow, often painful journey towards healing. Soon to be published by Om Books International, the book explores the ‘low hum’ of repressed trauma and the exhausting effort of maintaining a functional facade in the wake of tragedy.
17 September 2026
The menstruating body and the making of ‘womanhood’ in literature
There is an age when “shorir kharap” stops meaning what it once meant. Before that, the phrase belongs to fever, stomachache, the heavy-eyed tiredness of a school day spent under a slow fan.
17 September 2026
‘The Odyssey’ and what we lose when myth belongs only to its heroes
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) is everything audiences expect from a modern mythological epic: grand battles, brutal violence and a hero caught between glory and guilt. Adapted from Homer’s ancient Greek poem, the film is an impressive feat of action-adventure cinema. But for all its spectacle, it loses something when the myth remains so firmly centred on its hero: the women whose stories are left underwritten.
15 September 2026
BRAC Institute of Languages and The Daily Star redefine English Education for youth
In an educational landscape often dominated by rote memorisation and rigid textbook formats, a collaborative initiative between the BRAC Institute of Languages (BIL) and The Daily Star's English in "Schools (EIS) initiative" is redefining how young learners engage with language. Through the compilation and adaptation of Learn English for Success: Climb Higher (Class VI-VIII) and Learn English for Success: Climb Higher (Class IX-X), this partnership stands as a beacon of fresh, dynamic, and deeply interactive learning for students.
13 September 2026
Finding home, identity, and art in ‘Parsa’s Pithas’
How do you stay connected to your own culture and roots while living thousands of miles away from home?
11 September 2026
Out of the archives, into the feed
Open Instagram or TikTok for 10 minutes and you will likely run into him: a nervous Prague insurance clerk, dead for a century now, staring out from a grainy black-and-white photo with a quote about cages and birds stamped across it. Beside him sits a brooding Russian novelist who once faced a firing squad and lived to write about it afterward.
11 September 2026
Kobitabela: a soulful afternoon
On Friday, September 5, 2026, a small crowd gathered beneath the bright summer sky, drawn together by their shared passion for poetry. Organised by Intersectional Network Bangladesh (INB) in collaboration with Circle of Sorts (CoS), Kobitabela—a poetry reading event—was hosted at the Garden Bistro, Uttara.
9 September 2026
Whose literary production?: Anthropic’s Project Panama
Publishers in Bangladesh expressed that the recent surge in AI activity has not yet had a significant impact on their publishing practices or the Bangladeshi book market.
5 September 2026
Two nights that lit Azimpur
In the Azimpur government colony of the 1970s, two occasions—Ashura and ShabeBarat—turned familiar lanes into processional corridors and classrooms of companionship.
5 September 2026
Artificial convenience vs real-life consequences
There is growing outrage about the recent trend of Artificial Intelligence companies destroying huge quantities of books in order to train their AI language models.
3 September 2026
When writing needs an alibi
Literature has survived censorship, plagiarism, ghostwriters, bad editors, worse reviewers, and the occasional panic that a book might be dangerous enough to ban.
3 September 2026
Dinner time and death
Dinner time is the only time Maa gets the scope to speak to me.
About what she did that day.
29 August 2026
The finality of nostalgia
This city engulfs the bluest of the skies with its towering skyscrapers in the name of evolution,
29 August 2026
Sahara
I have not eaten today. Not on purpose. I will eat later. I simply have not thought of it yet.
29 August 2026
The courage to speak: The life, ideas, and legacy of Ambassador M. Serajul Islam
Ambassador Islam passionately believed that a nation of 180 million people should chart its own path, maintaining good but never subservient relationships with global powers. He was acutely aware of “our traits as a nation” but remained firm in his belief that the country could only thrive under Lincoln's doctrine of government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
25 August 2026
Patriarchy inversed: Reimagining Rokeya’s Ladyland in 2026
“Ladyland is not perfect,” remarks Sultana, one of the protagonists in the much awaited play, “Project Ladyland 2026”. Produced by HerStory Foundation in collaboration with the British Council and Women of the World Foundation, the play was greeted by a full house this weekend. Staged at the Bangladesh Mohila Samiti theatre, the performance made a splash on Friday, August 14.
23 August 2026
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