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
Memory speaks
Sometimes at early dawn / You overpower my eyelids / And won’t let me wake up
7 April 2025
Bluebird’s anthology
Who do I tell, sir? The walls do not listen,
The roads do not answer back
4 April 2025
The morgues are full
In Gaza, the names of the martyrs slip through silence, lost to a world too distracted to listen
4 April 2025
Making headlines
We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead
4 April 2025
6 literary characters we wish could join our Eid table
What if our Eid table had a few extra chairs reserved not for guests from our world but from that of the books we’ve loved throughout our life?
4 April 2025
A tapestry of traditions, joy, and growth
Beyond the celebration of Eid, this book also explores themes of love, loss, and the grief of spending a special occasion without a loved one.
30 March 2025
What does a tomb look like?
Let us talk about death.
Let us talk about funerals.
28 March 2025
Once Upon an Eid
S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed (eds.)Amulet Books, 2020
28 March 2025
Of glitter pens, prestige, and Eids in Dhaka
Being a Dhakaite, your Eids in childhood were spent in mournful longings for something to happen.
28 March 2025
Whose language matters: On inclusion, identity, and silence
The panel supplied a critical as well as emotional commentary on the issues of linguistic hegemonisation, power imbalances, the marginalisation of non-Bangali languages and identities, and the aftermath of the revolutionary spirit of July 2024
26 March 2025
World Poetry Day at Camp-16
This was the first poetry competition in the Rohingya camp
23 March 2025
The power of Qasidas and devotional poetry in deepening Ramadan reflections
While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, enriching the experience of Ramadan and deepening one’s spiritual reflections
22 March 2025
Bareness
Beneath the ocean of a cave
Are you not born with bareness?
21 March 2025
Across life
She told me in her last visit—
“Hold on to hope, my child.
21 March 2025
A home for her homeless heart
Having jotted down the iambic stanzas on the chopping board and collected the veggies alive from the realms of metaphors that smell the labor of her regular gardening records;
21 March 2025
Back in the old house
I was raised in the old country, back in the old house where all my siblings had grown up long before I was born.
21 March 2025
An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
Melissa Lozada-Oliva takes us on a bumpy apocalyptic horror ride in her debut novel Candelaria. Spanning across three generations of women, the novel ushers together an unsettled past and an even more bizarre present.
19 March 2025
The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
“Mr Speaker Sir, what did Bangalee intend to achieve? What rights did Bangalee want to possess? We do not need to discuss and decide on them now [after independence]. [We] tried to press our demands after the so called 1947 independence. Each of our days and years with Pakistan was an episode of bloodied history; a record of struggle for our rights,” said Tajuddin Ahmad on October 30, 1972 in the Constituent Assembly. He commented on the proposed draft constitution for Bangladesh, which was adopted on November 4, 1972.
19 March 2025
‘Bengal Photography’s Reality Quest’: A discourse with Naeem Mohaiemen
Throughout the session, Mohaiemen’s passionate, spontaneous, and engaging demeanour captivated the audience, fostering a deeper understanding of storytelling through images.
16 March 2025
Pardanasheen
Tell me about this life you live behind the curtain…
14 March 2025
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